Posted on 09/27/2015 9:22:34 AM PDT by robowombat
British Hospital Moves Injured Air Force Sergeant Twice Because His Uniform Might Offend ‘Different Cultures’
Sep. 27, 2015 9:00am Sharona Schwartz
A British hospital has apologized after twice moving a Royal Air Force sergeant out of the sight of other patients over the staff’s concern that his military uniform would offend other patients, British media reported this weekend.
According to the serviceman’s father, hospital workers told aircraft engineer Sgt. Mark Prendeville, 38, that he was moved away from other patients in a waiting room, because they thought his uniform “might upset people,” as they “have all kinds of different cultures coming in.”
Sgt. Mark Prendeville was asked by hospital staff to move twice over fears his Royal Air Force uniform might offend the multicultural patients.
Sgt. Mark Prendeville was asked by hospital staff to move twice over fears his Royal Air Force uniform might offend the multicultural patients.
Prendeville was taken to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in the seaside town of Margate after fire extinguisher chemicals got into his eyes during a training exercise.
Prendeville’s father Jim told the Telegraph that he was “disgusted” and that his son was “dumbfounded” after being told twice to move out of the view of other patients.
Having served in Iraq, Afghanistan and Bosnia, Predeville was wearing a camouflage combat uniform when he was brought in for treatment.
“One of the staff asked him if he would stand around the corner so he wouldn’t be seen by other people in case it may upset them because he was in uniform,” the father said. “He went round the corner not to make a fuss but then another member of staff asked him to move again in case anyone saw him because he was in uniform.”
“He said ‘why should I move,’ and they said ‘because your uniform might upset people, we have all kinds of different cultures coming in and you might upset them,’” Jim Prendeville told the British paper.
“The way they treat our servicemen – they’re willing to put their lives on the line, and they’re treated like lepers when they go to [emergency room],” he added.
A hospital spokesman issued a statement explaining that the staff member was motivated by a previous altercation between a serviceman and a patient.
“A member of the armed forces in uniform attended our A&E [emergency room] and was asked by a member of staff if he wanted to sit inside the department rather than the waiting room,” a hospital spokesman said in a statement given to the British media.
“This employee was acting in good faith because previously, there had been an altercation between a member of the public and a different member of the armed forces in uniform,” the spokesman explained.
The hospital is “absolutely clear that members of Her Majesty’s armed forces, whether in uniform or not, should not be treated any differently to any other person,” the spokesman added.
“This is horrifying,” Former RAF navigator Flt. Lt. John Nichol told the Sun. “You should be treated differently for wearing a uniform, you should be lauded because you’re wearing uniform, you should be celebrated for wearing uniform.”
Nichol is a well-known military commentator and author in the U.K. In 1991, his plane was shot down by then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s forces during the first Gulf War. He was later tortured and paraded on television.
Yeah, I can see where enemies of the UK might be “offended”. It offends me that the Brits allow them in their hospital.
When it gets to, "Sorry we did the wrong thing, and we promise not to do it again" then it becomes an apology.
Things like this make me want to say that Europe deserves the invasion but the few like the military and if there are any other conservatives make me hope they come to their senses. I’ll have to find out what general opinion was before WW2. Have they always been so daft?
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Oh, for the sake of Pete
England is a lost cause. WWII taught them nothing.
Yeah, I know that the Queen is supposed to above it all, but she is the Commander-in-Chief. If this report is true, this is EXACTLY the kind of thing she should be speaking up about.
But of course she won’t, except for perhaps a few behind the scenes words of displeasure. Nothing in public.
Carry on.
The correct answer is to move those who are offended . . . back to their home countries. What kind of idiot worries that a foreigner might be offended by the flag of the country he has moved to?
And the German schoolgirls are now being told to tone down their “skimpy” wardrobe so as not to offend the Mulsims residing in their school gymnasiums.
The simple solution is to remove the animals, likely muslims, to an animal hospital.....where they belong.
Both Britain and this country are ashamed of themselves and bringing about their own demise.
multicultural, really does not exist either you are a person of one nation or a person of another. Not this political correct crappola!
It’s the UK - it happens. If his mates would have come to the hospital to protest they’d be locked up and charged with being insensitive to outside cultures invading the UK.
PS - if something like that would have happened in the US, that hospital would not see the end of protests.
Why would this be shocking at this point? The UK has allowed a critical mass of Muslims to build up, and going forward the demands to shame British military pride, repress expressions of British national pride, and shame British history will continue to come, along with social pressure to hide women and girls away or risk having them victimized, ban pork products, etc.
As disgusting as this is, lets not go crazy.
Not quite, but I get your point.
No.
Quite sane, and most Brits are. The normies, sadly those in power have been infected over the last 20-25 yrs with PCitis.
The UK left would be raging if a this happened to a muslim and their police would have arrested the person offended by a muslim
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