캘거리 보건관리들 해고 - H1N1 백신접종 새치기 파동
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CALGARY — The Alberta government is investigating how most players on the Calgary Flames — along with some of their family members, coaching staff and management — arranged to receive their H1N1 vaccine shots in private last week, while thousands of Albertans stood in the cold for hours to be inoculated.
Flames president Ken King said Tuesday the hockey club made arrangements for the team to have the shots last Friday at an off-site clinic within the public health system, a day before tight supplies spurred the Alberta government to restrict inoculations to only those deemed to be at greatest risk. The clinic was not one of those set up for the general public.
King said he believed that the inoculation procedure the Flames followed had gone through an Alberta Health Services process.
A spokesman for Alberta Health Services said if the Flames jumped the board’s queue to get the shots it was a “mistake.”
Mark Kastner, spokesman for Alberta Health Services, said the board itself did not make any special arrangements for the Flames.
“Based on the process that was in place on Friday, that would have been a mistake and shouldn’t have happened,” Kastner said.
King said the organization and the medical staff felt the players should receive the vaccination given the risks associated with frequent physical contact, extreme exertion and a busy travel schedule.
"Our players did not seek to avoid lineups, they did not seek special attention," King said. "We appreciate that this is a very sensitive issue and it was an organizational direction and we accept responsibility for that.
"Given the information that we had at the time, we made a request. We felt that that request went through Alberta Health Services’ system appropriately and it would seem now, today, that it is deemed to be otherwise."
News of the Flames’ queue-jumping is certain to spark outrage in Alberta, where short vaccine supplies and a questionable decision to offer the vaccine to all comers led to extremely long waits and the province’s decision to suspend vaccinations last week. Alberta’s vaccine clinics will be reopened for high-risk patients only on Thursday.
Premier Ed Stelmach — already under heavy public pressure over the trouble-prone vaccine program — said Tuesday the government would investigate the Flames’ vaccine arrangement.
“If it has happened, somebody has broken the rules and we want to find out who it is, because it is deplorable,” he told a raucous question period in the provincial legislature.
Team captain Jarome Iginla was one of the players to receive the shot. So did his family, including his children aged one, three and five.
He noted that the general public was still able to receive the shot when the team attended the clinic on Friday.
"As players, we were following the medical protocol given to us," Iginla said.
"Today we can see...open the papers, and there’s a shortage so, yeah, we can understand why people may be upset."
Defenceman Robyn Regehr said he was "happy" to be able to get the shot.
"They told us if we wanted to get it done Friday, we had the option," he said.
"For me, I was pretty happy given you’re hearing all kinds of things that you might have to go across the border and what not...at that point we had the option so I took it as a player."
Flames head coach Brent Sutter added that the team simply followed the advice of medical staff and the organization.
"That’s what we did and that’s all I’ve got to say on it," Sutter said.
So far, the Flames are the only Canadian NHL team to be accused of queue-jumping. The Vancouver Canucks, Edmonton Oilers, Ottawa Senators and Montreal Canadiens all told Global National their players will wait until the vaccine is available to the general public. The Toronto Maple Leafs could not be reached for comment.
When the inoculation process began last week, Stelmach encouraged all Albertans to get the flu shot.
“Most of our players received the vaccine prior to the currently discussed priority program and consistent with the then-stated Alberta Health Services policy,” said Flames spokesman Peter Hanlon in an e-mail to the Calgary Herald.
He said the team also consulted the National Hockey League.
NHL spokesman Frank Brown said Monday the league recommended flu shots, but did not mandate them.
“Clearly, it’s a legitimate health concern,” he said.
Last week, Dr. Judy MacDonald, deputy medical officer of health in Calgary, said she would be upset if a prominent citizen jumped the H1N1 vaccination lineups.
With files from George Johnson and Michelle Lang, files from Global National.
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매니토바주에서도 백신이 부족한 가운데 H1N1 감기독감 백신접종 우선순위에 들지않은 많은 사람들이 접종을 해서 앞으로 백신접종시 백신접종 우선순위에 드는지 인터뷰를 하는 등 확인작업을 강화했습니다.
건강한 분들은 조금 불안해도 백신이 충분히 공급될 때까지 기다리는 것이 좋을 것 같습니다. 혼자만의 이익을 위하여 백신접종을 갔다가 새치기(break into the queue, cut in the line)로 판명되어 백신접종이 거부되면 얼마나 창피하겠습니까? 아직까지 매니토바주에선 상위층에 있는 사람들이 새치기 했다는 얘기가 없으니 그나마 다행입니다.
