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Frontline employees at the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency, private physician offices, private digital imaging labs and community clinics are all eligible for inoculation after one organization’s frustration with the criteria reached the floor of the Saskatchewan legislature on Friday.
Saskatoon Community Clinic executive director Lisa Clatney said around 40 of her employees who should have been eligible under the current criteria were originally turned away because they don’t work for the Saskatchewan Health Authority.
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Saskatchewan’s government said COVID-19 vaccine uptake among priority health-care workers was so low that it’s re-allocating the doses to other people in the field.
But unions representing those workers argue that people with priority status still have not had a chance to access the vaccine, owing to a lack of time or bureaucratic hurdles.
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The Ministry of Health said Monday that vaccine uptake among its high-priority health-care workers was only 67 per cent well below the 85 per cent goal a Saskatchewan Health Authority vaccine hesitancy team said was the target for health-care workers. The province announced plans to re-allocate those doses to other nurses, doctors and frontline health-care staff.
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