From The Telegraph U.K.
Muslim staff escape NHS hygiene rule
Muslim doctors and nurses are to be allowed to opt out of strict hygiene rules introduced by the NHS to restrict the spread of hospital superbugs.
Published: 12:30AM BST 11 Apr 2010
Female staff who follow the Islamic faith will be allowed to cover their arms to preserve their modesty despite earlier guidance that all staff should be “bare below the elbow”.
The Department of Health has also relaxed rules prohibiting jewellery so that Sikh members of staff can wear bangles linked with their faith, providing they are pushed up the arm while the medic treats a patient.
The Mail on Sunday reported the change had been made after female Muslims objected to being required to expose their arm below the elbow under guidance introduced by Alan Johnson when he was health secretary in 2007.
The rules were drawn up to reduce the number of patients who were falling ill, and even dying, from superbugs such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile.
Revised guidance which relaxed the requirements for some religions was published last month.
Some Muslim staff and those from other groups may be allowed to use disposable plastic over-sleeves which cover their clothes below the elbow and allow the skin to remain covered up.
Derek Butler, chairman of MRSA Action UK, said: “My worry is that allowing some medics to use disposable sleeves you compromise patient safety because unless you change the sleeves between each patient, you spread bacteria.
“Scrubbing bare arms is far more effective.”
A Department of Health spokesman said: “The guidance is intended to provide direction to services in how they can balance infection control measures with cultural beliefs without compromising patient safety.”
Britons, the pandemic begins. Do not allow arselifting medical staff to touch you.
Wow! Even bugs will be used to kill the infidel courtesy of the PC police state which the uk has become.
If they will not adhere to common sense rules about hygiene, then fire the lot of them and never hire another Muslim again!
The appeasement of Muslims around the world has gone on long enough.
The west has no more courage to stand up for itself in the wake of the need for OPEC oil and gas and 9/11-style attacks.
So now we risk disease because some backwards, 7th century cult leader didn’t like alcohol?
I say NO MORE MUSLIM APPEASEMENT!
If they don’t like the way we live, then SHIP THEM ALL BACK TO WHERE THEY CAME FROM!!!!
We cannot go on like this for much longer.
May the west and reason prevail in these times.
Kufar and proud.
Considering that a Muslim can’t enter the bathroom without agonizing over which foot to put first in the name of Allah while counting loo floor tiles and that arse washing is mandatory after each pee, I find it hard to believe that they would not scrub down before attending to a patient or performing surgery. I guarantee that Saudis scrub before attending to a fellow Muslim, providing of course they belong to the right sect.
Oh, I forgot to mention, the resistance to scrubbing in NHS hospitals in the name of “modesty” must be a special religious requirement reserved for western environments.
I think it is very good to give this permission because it vey hard for a girl who did not bare her arms for ever and if she is been forced in her education sector it does not seem good. And also there could be many other ways to stop superbugs and becteria like plastic gloves etc.