Raghu Venugopal is a Toronto-based emergency physician and professor who led a one-man anti-vaccine counter protest in 2021, triggering a change in legislation.[1]
Raghu Venugopal | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University McGill University Harvard University |
| Occupation(s) | Emergency physician, University Health Network |
Education
editVenugopal completed his medical residency training at McGill University before completing an international emergency medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins University.[2]
He has a Masters of Public Health from Harvard University.[2]
Career
editVenugopal has worked for Médecins Sans Frontières in Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He has served on the board of directors of Médecins Sans Frontières Canada.[2]
He works at Toronto General Hospital,[3] and is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Toronto.[2]
In 2016, he spoke of the benefits of telemedicine in a Médecins Sans Frontières run hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[4]
In 2019, he spoke out against the Ontario Provincial Government's cuts to the public health budget.[5]
In August 2021, he spoke out against the nursing shortage in Ontario.[6][7]
In September 2021, Venugopal counter protested an anti-vaccination protest outside the Toronto General Hospital.[8][9] He called the protests "un-Canadian" and "unacceptable".[10][11] The same day, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he would criminalize blocking access to hospitals;[1] and an amendment to the Criminal Code of Canada was approved on the 17 December 2021.[12]
References
edit- ^ a b Connolly, Amanda (13 September 2021). "'It's not right': Trudeau vows to criminalize blocking access to hospitals amid protests". Global News.
- ^ a b c d "Raghu Venugopal | UHN Emergency Medicine Research". UHN Emergency Medici. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
- ^ ""People were yelling and calling me names": What it's like for health care workers to walk through hospital anti-vax protests". Toronto Life. 2021-09-17. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
- ^ "How telemedicine promises to change Africa". Africa M.E. 2016-08-08. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
- ^ Kopun, Francine (2019-09-03). "More than 100 Toronto emergency room professionals urge province to reverse public health cuts". The Toronto Star. ISSN 0319-0781. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
- ^ Beattie, Samantha (24 Aug 2021). "Ontario health-care workers warn of 'brutal' nurse shortage as hospitals brace for 4th wave". CBC.
- ^ "The latest on the coronavirus outbreak for August 24". CBC. 24 Aug 2021.
- ^ "Doctor holds counter-protest against anti-vaccine protest outside his Toronto hospital". CBC. 13 Sep 2021.
- ^ "CityNews". toronto.citynews.ca. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
- ^ "Doctor holds counter-protest against demonstrators targeting hospitals". CBC.
- ^ "COVID-19 hospital protests 'a morale blow' to Canada's exhausted health-care workers | Globalnews.ca". Global News. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
- ^ "C-3 (44-1) - LEGISinfo - Parliament of Canada". www.parl.ca. Retrieved 2021-12-31.