Wed Oct 6, 2021 – 5:50 pm EDT
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(LifeSiteNews) — More than 600 doctors in Quebec could face being suspended without pay starting October 15 if they haven’t received both doses of a COVID vaccine by then.
In a statement published September 29, The Collège des Médecins du Québec (CMQ), the professional order of physicians in Quebec, informed members that, in accordance with a recent decree from the government mandating vaccination for all healthcare professionals, those who have not been fully vaccinated as of October 15 will see their rights to exercise their profession suspended without compensation. The CMQ called on all unvaccinated physicians to “regularize their situation” as soon as possible.
The statement started with a comment that “the Collège des Médecins considers vaccination a moral duty and a social obligation,” and continued by saying vaccination “is a scientifically proven way of protecting the whole population.”
It then referred to data from Quebec’s National Institute of Public Health that indicate 97% of doctors in Quebec have already received both doses of the COVID vaccine but that nearly 3% are not adequately “protected” for “a variety of reasons.”
The CMQ recalled that the Collège is required by governmental decree to identify all physicians and residents who have not yet been
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