Arkansas hospital staff must stop using 30 medications to get religious ...

Arkansas hospital staff must stop using 30 medications to get religious ...
Arkansas hospital staff must stop using 30 medications to get religious ...

A central Arkansas hospital system is requiring staff members who receive a religious exemption from getting the COVID-19 vaccine to also give up other popular medications.

Conway Regional Medical Center has joined the growing number of hospitals mandate Covid shots for workers.

Employees of the hospital system will have until October 8 to be fully vaccinated, but there is an option for some to get a religious exemption from the requirement.

Hospital leadership noticed that many were applying for religious exemptions based on the potential use of fetal cell lines in the development of the vaccine. 

To make sure that employees applying for waivers to dodge vaccine requirements are doing so because of their truly-held beliefs, the hospital is making them attest that they will stop using 30 other common drugs that also used fetal cell lines for development, including Tylenol and Tums. 

Conway Regional Health System is requiring all employees to get vaccinated by October 8 to keep their jobs. Those who apply for a religious exemption on the basis of vaccines using fetal cell links in development will also have to attest to not use other drugs that used the same process in development

Conway Regional Health System is requiring all employees to get vaccinated by October 8 to keep their jobs. Those who apply for a religious exemption on the basis of vaccines using fetal cell links in development will also have to attest to not use other drugs that used the same process in development

'This was significantly disproportionate to what we've seen with the influenza vaccine,' Matt Troup, CEO of Conway, told Becker's Hospital Review

'Thus, we provided a religious attestation form for those individuals requesting a religious exemption. 

'The intent of the religious attestation form is twofold: to ensure staff requesting exemption are sincere in their beliefs and to educate staff who might have requested an exemption without understanding the full scope of how fetal cells are used in testing and development in common medicines.' 

Hospital workers applying for exemption will have so sign a form attesting that they will also seize any use of aspirin, Tylenol,

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