Alberta justice dismisses doctors’ requests to be exempt from vaccine policy
EDMONTON – An Alberta judge has dismissed an application by four doctors who wanted to be exempt from an Alberta Health Services requirement that all health-care workers be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Court of Queen’s Bench Justice John Henderson says his decision is in the public interest because he does not want Albertans to question the rules the health provider has put in place to try to curb the spread of the virus.
Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Nadr Jomha; Dr. Blaine Achen, chief of cardiac anesthesia at the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute; and physicians Gert Grobler and Tyler May filed the request earlier this month.
Richard Secord, a lawyer with the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, represented the doctors and argued all four had built a natural immunity to COVID-19 after testing positive and recovering from the infection.
