Claims of professional misconduct were upheld by a fitness-to-practice committee this morning.
ALLEGATIONS OF PROFESSIONAL misconduct have been upheld by a fitness-to-practice inquiry in relation to a HSE physiotherapist who spread false claims about Covid-19 vaccines and the use of masks during the pandemic.
Anna Marie Stack Rivas today was found to have made claims that were considered professional misconduct by a Coru committee - the regulatory body of health and social care professionals.
The committee recommended that the Health and Social Care Professionals Council “impose the sanction of censure” upon Stack Rivas, adding that she had “misinformed her audience regarding the existence and/or prevention of Covid-19″.
It said claims she had made during the pandemic were “irresponsible and caused risk to the public”.
During a series of speeches and talks she did at public events, she made claims about the pandemic while identifying herself as a physiotherapist and healthcare worker.
They include claims that residents of nursing homes aged over 70 were “culled” and that people who allowed their children to wear face masks were causing them “permanent brain damage.”
Stack Rivas also described masks as “satanic symbols” and claimed vaccines were “either maiming or murdering our children”, while the Covid-19 pandemic was “a conspiracy”.
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