More than 8% of Central Queensland Hospital and Health Service workers have failed to comply with the COVID-19 vaccination mandate, forcing staff cuts from surgical, medical and mental health beds.
Data showed that three hundred and eighty five workers in Rockhampton, Gladstone and Emerald hospitals have provided no evidence of having two COVID-19 vaccine shots.
136 of them have requested an exemption from the mandate but Queensland health director-general John Wakefield has made it clear that anyone who has not been vaccinated against COVID-19 will not be allowed to work in a public health facility.