Pregnant Ontario Nurse Facing Termination Asks Hospital to Reconsider COVID Vaccine Mandate

Pregnant Ontario Nurse Facing Termination Asks Hospital to Reconsider COVID Vaccine Mandate
Syringes with a COVID-19 vaccine in Bidderford, Maine, on April 26, 2021. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images
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A London, Ontario, pregnant nurse about to be fired from her job has asked the CEO of the London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) to reconsider the hospital’s mandatory vaccine policy.

Sandra Hartman, who is 35 and eight months pregnant, was put on unpaid leave for declining a COVID-19 shot, according to a report in the London Free Press on June 11. Despite most COVID restrictions being lifted, the hospital has not changed its policy, the nurse said.