Posted on 02/28/2008 8:03:33 AM PST by Sub-Driver
3 Cities Fighting Hygiene Battle With Muslim Hospital Workers
Thursday , February 28, 2008
Muslim medical workers in three major English cities are balking at hospital hygiene rules such as rolling up their sleeves when they scrub for surgery, according to The Daily Mail.
Health officials have been ready to wash their hands of the dispute, but at least one hospital is bending to the requests.
Female med students and staff at hospitals in at least a trio of large British cities Liverpool, Leicester and Sheffield have continued to flat-out refuse to comply with regulations aimed at fending off germs and infections, the Mail reported, with some saying they'd rather quit than expose their arms.
The workers object on the grounds that showing their forearms is immodest for women who practice Islam and against their religion. Hygiene gurus insist that no exceptions should be made for religious or other reasons.
But Alder Hey children's hospital in Liverpool said that though there are certain non-negotiable rules, it is attempting to work with Muslim students to find a solution.
"We specify bare below elbows, no wrist watches, nail varnish or false nails in clinical areas," Steve Ryan, Alder Hey's medical director, told the Mail. "Good hand hygiene is one of the most important and simplest actions we can take to prevent health care-associated infections."
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at least we wont offend anyones modesty.
and all the patients will be dead from infection....
Get them out of here.
“The number of deaths linked to hospital bug Clostridium difficile has soared in England and Wales, figures from the Office for National Statistics show.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7268578.stm
Do these Muslims even realize how ridiculous their requests sound?
OK. I have a rather disgusting tale to tell about the practices of some Muslim women on a University campus with which I am familiar. A friend who works in housekeeping in a science building said that Muslim women try to get jobs in the particular building because there are showers in the women’s restrooms. These showers do not have curtains/doors. I’m assuming they are a safety feature in case there’s some kind of contamination. I really don’t know.
Anywho, the Muslim women on campus go to these showers during their pray to Mecca times because they are not allowed to kneel on their prayer rugs like the men are. They must cleanse their personal, most private parts while praying. And they do this in these showers. My friend was quite shocked. Now maybe the explanation she was given was wrong, but I don’t know. She was really disgusted. But she’s come across gay professors doing the dirty. The powers that be look the other way. Blech.
It's ironic. Back in the Middle Ages, nobody in Europe bathed regularly, partially out of fear that being "too" clean would peg you as a Jew or a Mohammedan. Nowadays, it's the Muslims that are filthy, and the Catholics you have to depend upon to not spread infection.
This is just ridiculous. Absurd. Again, no common sense, just political correctness.
The crisis is, Great Groveling Britain is so wracked with political correctness that the government - which runs the NHS - is going to fold their hand to this Muslim demand as well. They would rather die than insult their Muslim conquerors brethren.
...and they soon enough will.
I bet the crisis is aided and abetted by the NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE. Socialized medicine, which right now is probably under the thumb of political correctness - just like you have to “hand out ‘free’ health care to all to be ‘inclusive’ and ‘generous’”, you have to include Moslems in the process no matter how they violate pre-existing rules.
I don't think they care one way or another. It's not about true religious faith, it's about pushing the camel's nose further into the tent.
FIRE THEM........ and make sure that when the Muzzies are patients, that they also have to be clean.
It’s not fair to others coming into the hospital to leave worse than they arrived.
ROFL
Yes, and they’re getting their covered heads cut off by those “anti-hijab” bigots because they insist on wearing their God-ordained headgear!!!!
Do these Muslims even realize how ridiculous their requests sound?”
NOPE- Their bodies are in the 21 st Century...
Their brains are still in the 7 th Century.
Ah- the irony!
Muslims hate the pig-and they have personal hygiene that makes a pig look sanitary.
Hate pigs- hate themselves. Explains a lot about Islam, doesn’t it?
Now they’re about plunging society back into the dark ages not only politically but socially . In increments. Imagine a Muslim world- the filth, the stench of barbarism- all mandated by Islam, down to bathroom behavior and health!
Islam is an evil disease and mankind MUST be purged of it.
Your choice.
England is going down hill fast.
Where is NV? Nevada, North Viet Nam, New Vealand?
I hadn’t heard about that one.
OMG!
And I always wonder why no-one asks WHERE ARE THE FEMALES PRAYING when they’re slavishly respectfully showing “Moslems at prayer” (i.e., ONLY MEN in the mosque at prayer).
Never mind if they’re doing something beyond the butt-raising of the men!
“Im assuming they are a safety feature in case theres some kind of contamination.”
“Science” buildings indeed will include things for haz-mat type of situations (chemicals, etc) as well as seemingly more mundane things such as fine debris from shops making parts. It’s not fun having metal OR fiberglass dust getting in your eyes.
“Someone needs to draw the line “
The line has been drawn, but it a Muslim line...
“I bet the crisis is aided and abetted by the NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE.”
Got that right! The NHS probably sees it as a way to decrease the hospital population. More infections, more deaths, fewer patients. NHS — Not Healthy or Sanitary!
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