Mon Sep 13, 2021 – 11:00 am EDT
LOWVILLE, New York (LifeSiteNews) — Nurses refusing to take the experimental COVID-19 vaccine led a hospital in upstate New York to shut down the maternity ward starting September 25.
“We are unable to safely staff the [maternity care] service after September 24,” Lewis County Health System CEO Gerald Cayer said during a press conference Friday. “If we can pause the service and now focus on recruiting nurses who are vaccinated, we will be able to reengage in delivering babies here in Lewis County.”
New York has mandated that all healthcare workers receive at least one COVID-19 injection by September 27. Otherwise, they won’t be able to work any longer.
According to Cayer, 165 out of the hospital’s 464 employees have not been jabbed, and 30 formally resigned over the mandate.
The maternity ward alone has had six resignations. An additional seven nurses in the unit remain “undecided” on whether they will comply with the state’s order.
Lewis County Health System did not immediately respond to LifeSite’s request for comment on why a large number of employees decided not to get vaccinated.
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