Posted on 02/03/2008 7:26:33 PM PST by NoKoolAidforMe
Muslim women working at U.K. medical facilities are increasingly refusing to comply with the basic hygiene standard of rolling up their sleeves when their washing hands, it was reported. According to the U.K.'s Daily Telegraph, female workers are ignoring Britain's Department of Health rules requiring medics to be "bare below the elbow" because they consider showing any skin — outside the hands and face — immodest. The guidelines were put into place to stave off the spread of infectious killer bugs like MRSA and Clostridium difficile, which have been implicated in the deaths of hundreds of hospital patients, according to the paper. Hygiene experts said the standard should hold for all workers— even if it goes against their religion. "I don't think it would be right to make an exemption for people on any grounds. The policy of bare below the elbows has to be applied universally," Dr. Mark Enright, professor of microbiology at Imperial College London told the Telegraph. Some fear the enforcing the rules will open the door to lawsuits charging discrimination against female Muslims working within the medical professions. The Islamic Medical Association, for one, has issued a statement that "no practicing Muslim woman — doctor, medical student, nurse or patient — should be forced to bare her arms below the elbow," according to paper. Click here to read more in the U.K.'s Daily Telegraph.
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Fire them. Oops, it’s the UK - that’s impossible too.
I have the popcorn and ate it all.
I washed my hands before eating it with soap and water.
Yeah, but did you roll up your sleeves?
“The Islamic Medical Association, for one, has issued a statement that “no practicing Muslim woman — doctor, medical student, nurse or patient — should be forced to bare her arms below the elbow”
And these are the same people who claim Islam has given so much to science.
Infidel whore!
Your tagline becomes more applicable by the day.
This is going get good
Fire them
absolutely too my elbows.
Why are these women allowed to work in this job? If it is a condition of employment, they can either follow the rules or go out the door. No firing is necessary, just tell them that if they cannot comply with basic sanitation rules, they will not be allowed in the workplace.
They’re offended when asked to roll up their sleeves and wash, think how offended they will be when people refuse to be treated by them.
Most people eat popcorn with butter and salt, but to each their own I guess.
Giggling...
“Your tagline becomes more applicable by the day.”
Yeah, it does - and that’s not a good thing.
Turbanate them! Call Turbanesx!
It’s the UK. They can’t fire them. They have to make them citizens if they’re not already. Then they grant them a special sharia-compliant exemption to not scrub thoroughly. If the patient gets an infection, they must have brought it into the hospital themselves.
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