Thu Apr 20, 2023 – 6:26 pm EDT
MERRITT, British Columbia (LifeSiteNews) – Facing pressures of repeated emergency room closures at a local hospital, the mayor of the small Canadian city of Merritt, British Columbia has demanded his province hire back healthcare workers who were let go because they did not get the COVID shots.
Mayor Mike Goetz recently made a request to British Columbia’s Interior Health to get rid of a COVID jab mandate still in place for healthcare workers who were placed on leave or fired.
As per a CFJC news report, Goetz said that Nicola Valley Hospital and Health Centre “years ago” was a “fully functional hospital.”
“All 40 beds were out. We had surgeons, we had babies born here. This is not a magical situation. It’s happened before and it needs to be returned to that,” Goetz noted.
Residents of the Nicola Valley area have been protesting what is now the 10th closure of their emergency department.
When the city’s local ER is closed, people are forced to make a drive to the Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops or Kelowna General Hospital, which are both over an hour away.
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