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3 Cities Fighting Hygiene Battle With Muslim Hospital Workers
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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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: aliens; health; immigration; islam; medicine; moslem; muslim
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To: Sub-Driver
... with some saying they'd rather quit than expose their arms.

That's whatcha call a 'no-brainer.'

41 posted on 02/28/2008 8:53:26 AM PST by RobinOfKingston (Man, that's stupid ... even by congressional standards.)
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To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...
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.

So QUIT already! Better yet... FIRE them.

42 posted on 02/28/2008 8:54:13 AM PST by nutmeg (Obama supporters: Drink the Kool-Aid? Yes we can!)
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To: ClearBlueSky

Spot on!

BUMP!


43 posted on 02/28/2008 8:54:34 AM PST by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: nutmeg

F***ing unbelievable. Keep on placating them and this is the crap you get. Political correctness my ass.


44 posted on 02/28/2008 9:07:50 AM PST by stanz (Those who don't believe in evolution should go jump off the flat edge of the Earth.)
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To: Cold Heart

Nevada. Sorry, thought everyone heard this on the news this morning. There’s a news article here on FR about it.


45 posted on 02/28/2008 9:15:11 AM PST by Rick.Donaldson (http://www.transasianaxis.com - Please visit for lastest on DPRK/Russia/China/et al.)
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To: AbeKrieger
People who say it’s immodest to show a forearm in public have no business calling themselves doctor. I don’t know why today’s immigrants insist on bringing us all the garbage that made their home country a dump? It wouldn’t be such a big problem if our weakling politicians weren’t so willing to sell our culture and country for a few more votes.
46 posted on 02/28/2008 9:22:14 AM PST by peeps36 (OUTLAWED WORDS--INSURGENT,GLOBAL WARMING,UNDOCUMENTED WORKER,PALESTINIAN,TERMINATED PREGNANCY)
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To: Cold Heart

Nevada I think in Las Vegas. I live near Reno, and heard the story, but am pretty sure it isn’t Reno.


47 posted on 02/28/2008 9:30:36 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: stanz
This absolutely must not be tolerated and STOPPED immediately before there get to be too many of these emboldened Muslim hospital workers. If they want to work at a hospital, fine... just follow the rules or be fired.

I fear this may be an issue in the US someday. This has got to be nipped in the bud...

48 posted on 02/28/2008 9:34:47 AM PST by nutmeg (Obama supporters: Drink the Kool-Aid? Yes we can!)
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To: Sub-Driver

celebrate diversity (and getting MRSA!)


49 posted on 02/28/2008 10:55:10 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (Conservatives are to McCain what Charlie Brown is to Lucy.)
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To: Sub-Driver

“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.”

Such an easy way out of this nonsense......fire ‘em!


50 posted on 02/28/2008 10:59:02 AM PST by AuntB ('If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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To: Sub-Driver; nutmeg
nutmeg, thanks for the ping.

3 cities x 1400 deaths per day per city
from incurable chronic infection
x (amplification factor for inter-Dhimmi spread = 7) x
x (planned input of weaponized anti-Dhimmi microbe)

"England's people are dead, Jim.

51 posted on 02/28/2008 1:58:14 PM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Sub-Driver

WHat is the crisis. Let them practice their religious rituals...but NOT at this place of work.

Simple enough.


52 posted on 02/28/2008 1:59:30 PM PST by Tigercap (McCain. For Supreme Court judge nominations and WOT progress if nothing else.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

I’m a Yank who lives in England (but I’m coming home soon,yea!) and as a student I’ve worked for the NHS on and off for the past couple of years. I can say that where I worked they’re mostly still “English” but that this “shite” is creeping into even small places in North West Britain (Chester). Does anybody find it to be a “coincidinc”(American funny pronunciation) that cases of MRSA and C-Difficil have skyrockedted because Muslim nurses refuse to scrub? I think not. But rather than “offend” them the Leftist NHS is more willing to let innocent people die from septicemia.


53 posted on 02/28/2008 7:00:09 PM PST by wazoo1031
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To: stevio
I can see their point, I happen to be a “wrist man” myself.

So you *admit* you're a wanker? ;-)

(Rim shot)

Cheers!

54 posted on 02/28/2008 7:03:52 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Sub-Driver
...it is attempting to work with Muslim students to find a solution.

I have a solution!

Go back to wherever the hell you came from and take the dark ages with you!

55 posted on 02/28/2008 7:07:51 PM PST by ScratInTheHat (Don't like my immigration stance? I'm dyslexic. PC keeps sounding like BS to me!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Dunkirk war veteran killed by superbug in ‘dirty’ NHS hospital A Second World War veteran who survived the Dunkirk evacuation died after contracting a superbug at a NHS hospital following a routine operation. http://tinyurl.com/33n9hg


56 posted on 02/28/2008 7:09:44 PM PST by anglian
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To: Sub-Driver

Ah the benefits of multi-culturalism: disease, mayhem and death.


57 posted on 02/28/2008 7:13:33 PM PST by twntaipan (Lying is the Democrat's native tongue.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Isn’t it wrong for a Muslim women to be touching a man who she isn’t married to? Or see that man naked? Also I would think putting your hands into his body would just cause to be stonned to death.


58 posted on 02/28/2008 7:13:56 PM PST by LukeL
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To: Sub-Driver

Refuse to have them serve you. Ask for non-Muslim healthcare workers.


59 posted on 02/28/2008 7:15:03 PM PST by Chickensoup (If it is not permitted, it is prohibited. Only the government can permit....)
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To: CodeToad

Where is “here”?


60 posted on 02/28/2008 7:23:43 PM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
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