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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1988-08-30, Page 221. You have previously . advised in OPEPA and` 0960 your column that then should no Health is the. age feaa of a doctor with AIDS or who. is Cana%lianr province' be congrabulate& The Ohio: 1 AIDS hotline` is 1-8,`66&- A This is:. a toll-free n r .for �iax residence' in the province. Confidential to. Mrs. S. Listawel Ont. - .. The question its your ,letter was little too explicit t pulal ss ed# column}. and you did not provide Me. with a return address to respond to you personally However," the answer,•is:, "no"T 'You are not at h Of contra .�� of seitUal,attivity whusband as long` ' as yQit' monogamouss .relatip: neither one of fou axis infected with'V ( 'Editors' note: memberof the Health' Assoc lion AILS:: What Bible Canadiann$hu have a gees*l write to AIDS. Awarenes sss ', Avenue, Wl lowdarle Ott.,` infected with the AIDS virus. The Human Rights Commisslon, however, recently announced- that, in its opinion, any- employee who is AIDS virus positive should not be allowed to perform invasive procedures in a health-care setting, Who is right? -® L. W., Kitchener, Ont. I am, and I can't tell you how disappointed I am in the Canadian Human Rights Commission for making such a serious error in" judgment. The commission is establishing a very dangerous precedent concerning. AIDS testing in the workplace for vertain jobs. They consider being AIDS virus free a bona -fide occupational requirement where an individual assessment has determined no other arrangement of duties is possible. It is an essential rrequirement of any position that: a) re,, .employess to perform "invasiveprocedures" on a patient, -swims surgery bYreOireSlieMployees who travel unities, that bar entry to those inteCtedwith the AIDSvirus; cru in emp1Q4toerform Jo b' dotes .whic-h impinge . on the' safety of the public and perforin_ these duties alone. ti 3. While:1 will not quibble with points • B and C (although thereis no evidence.'to support that mandatory AIDS testing should be necessary in either case), I am totally opposed to A that professional health care workers, such as surgeons, should be required to undergo AIDS testing. This also suggests that anyone, including registered nurses, who may be required to inject a patient also will have to undergo testing. I challenge any doctor, health- care professional or member of the Human Rights ` Commission to tell me how any patient in a health-care setting (particularly during surgical procedures) could possibly contract AIDS. As I have said before, an. AIDS -infected surgeon would have to cut himself and bleed into an. incision of the patient upon Whom he was operating before there was any remote possibility of the patient, contracting AIDS. Mandatory .AIDS testing for employees ' orfor prospective ern:- ployees should°be forbidden aid the Human Rights ,Commission is wrong. They are establishing a precedent 'which could . give employers the excuse they may be looking: for to insist upon AIDS testing, ultimately leading to. discriminatory actions, I recently received a brochure id the mail entitled "AIDS: Let's.. Talk"d The booklet said -1 oan't;get: AIDS from donating, Woods .Is this: true? — M. W.'fit.trill, Oflti ., Yes: The booklet :reads,,, "Needles usedto take bleed are sterile. They. 'are used once and then.. thrown away.'" 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