BC Doctors Fundraising for Legal Fight Over Vaccine Mandate for Health Workers

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry speaks in the press theatre at the legislature in Victoria, B.C., on March 10, 2022. Chad Hipolito/The Canadian Press

B.C. doctors out of work for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine are crowdfunding to raise financial support for a court battle against the provincial government in November.

Vascular surgeon Dr. York Hsiang, psychiatrist Dr. David William Morgan, and clinical resource nurse Hilary VanderGugten filed a request for judicial review on June 10 to challenge the ban on unvaccinated doctors instituted by B.C. Provincial Health Officer (PHO) Dr. Bonnie Henry in November 2021.