Fri Oct 22, 2021 – 6:07 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Canada’s largest organ transplant medical center has ruled that patients without COVID jabs will be denied life-saving treatment as organ recipients.
“There is ample research to support that the best course of action is to vaccinate individuals prior to transplant, whenever possible,” Toronto’s University Health Network (UHN) Ajmera Transplant Centre said in a statement. “Just as with other medical requirements, the COVID-19 vaccination helps ensure best possible outcome for our patients.”
According to a CTV news report, Dr. Atul Humar, director of UHN’s transplant center, said anyone seeking an organ transplant must first be jabbed with the still-experimental COVID injections.
Humar said the issue was debated by doctors at UHN, who decided that from a “medical point of view, we all felt quite strongly that this was needed.”
“So we’ve been having a lot of discussion on how best to formulate this policy,” Humar said.
There are 4,300 people currently awaiting organ transplants at UHN, according to CTV.
In CTV’s report, Humar claimed that the decision to mandate the COVID jabs for organ recipients was “actually a very complex discussion.”
“We had ethical input; we had input from medical leaders and experts in the field.” he said.
UHN also mandated, starting today, that all visitors must show proof of having
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