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(LifeSiteNews) — A senior official at Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) has warned that some hospital services could soon grind to a halt as the health system faces huge staff shortages over the government’s requirement for healthcare workers to be jabbed against COVID-19.
According to a report in the Guardian, Chris Hopson, the chief executive of NHS Providers — the membership organization for NHS trusts — raised concerns from trust leaders throughout England and Wales, who have expressed a fear that “when COVID vaccinations will become mandatory, decisions by staff to remain unvaccinated could — in extreme circumstances — lead to patient services being put at risk.”
Health Minister Sajid Javid announced in November that all NHS staff whose job puts them in “face-to-face” contact with patients will be required to take the abortion-tainted COVID shot before April 2022, including non-clinical staff such as hospital porters.
Javid has advised colleagues to coax one another into taking the shot, saying anyone who has still refused to take the jab should be encouraged to make “a positive choice.”
Despite high uptake of the jab among NHS staff, reportedly around 90 percent having taken at least one shot, and with Javid’s pressure tactics, Hopson remained concerned that “[if] sufficient numbers of unvaccinated staff in
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