Almost 50% of the healthcare units have decided to ignore flu shots, reported by officials who are really concerned about the health of the worker especially on the current health issue where seasonal flu and a renewed outbreak of H1N1 is making some health damage to a lot of people.
Professional health workers such as doctors and nurses are likely want to acquire vaccination while other healthcare workers such as orderlies, housekeepers and lab technicians are ignoring to get vaccinated, reported by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, included to those who least likely to be vaccinated by flu shots are nursing home workers.
Jorge Parada, director of infection control at Loyola University Health System in Chicago was alarm by the issue and said that it is a big, big safety issue.
A lot of worker who ignore vaccines because they think that they will not be infected and won’t get sick, and other have fear in getting vaccinated because they might got sick instead of protection, healthcare officials said.
And as an employment condition, Loyola is commanded all 7,825 of its employees must be vaccinated for flu safety. It also make swine flu vaccinations compulsory this coming October, reported by The Chicago Tribune last Tuesday.
Also, New York State have force healthcare workers to be vaccinated for flu this year, reported by Tribune.
