More Muslim Women Medics in U.K. Refusing to Follow Hygiene Rules

Fox News ^ | 02-03-08 | Fox News

[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.

[org.whodat]

As long as they are just passing disease on to other Muslims who cares.

[NoKoolAidforMe]

Yes, but now they are open about their takeover of the west. They want to kill the infidels any way they can. Hi-jacked airplanes, beheading, suicide bombers, anthrax, MRSA infections, refusing to take off their headscarves for driver license photos, etc.

[Krankor]

And if you cut yourself- just throw a few kernels on the wound- yesssssssssssssssssssssssssss

[bobby.223]

oh I can think of one more “better yet”.

[yankeedame]

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.

In a word: FEAR.

[Xenalyte]

I have the popcorn and ate it all.

I washed my hands before eating it with soap and water.

You ate your popcorn with soap and water? :)

[yankeedame]

Blimey! remind me to stay out of hospital while in england

And ambulances. About a year or so ago, BBC found British ambulances were the dirtiest/ least sanitary in all Europe.

[mylife]

There is a reason we left that place.

[Doctor Don]

Simple...take away their licenses!

[Viking2002]

Don't worry - I'll be the hairy, burly guy laying there, munching on a bag of pork rinds. LOL

Think I'm kidding? :-)

[Big Horn]

What do they do if they work as a stripper?

[Cindy]

Absolutely — let nothing go to waste,

[American Infidel]

This may have already been suggested, but how difficult would it be to simply put up a curtain or a partition so they can scrub up privately? Problem solved.

Of course, accommodating them in this manner may simply lead to more demands, but the notion that they shouldn't scrub up to the elbows is ridiculous. Patient safety trumps any 'religious' concern. Otherwise, find another job or go back to the 3rd world islamic hellhole from which you escaped.

[Fiddlstix]

......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.....

No problem. Just let them tend to muslim patients only.
Problem solved.
(In more ways than one)

[Munson]

Shouldn’t British freepers email/write the shadow health minister of the Conservative Party to address this issue to the secretary of state for health about this issue?

[Eroteme]

This may have already been suggested, but how difficult would it be to simply put up a curtain or a partition so they can scrub up privately? Problem solved.

It makes perfect sense. Such a simple solution, entirely accommodating, yet not enough for them. It's apparent that female modesty has nothing to do with their demands. As you noted, it's about flexing muscle and making more and more demands.

[secret garden]

Are you the one who designed this bumper sticker?

It Takes a Viking to Raze a Village

[DesScorp]

Better the Brits than us.