Infection Control Or Religious Consideration?

[mushroom25]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6981906/Top-doc-axed-after-reporting-Muslim-surgeon-hijab-was-spotted-with-blood-before-op.html

who's got the moral high ground in this?

would you be ok with your surgeon breaking infection control rules because religion dictated a particular dress code?

[Old_Geezer]

Hospital infection control rules are there for a good reason. Religious rules are simply traditional practice and should not take priority. Could the garment simply not be replaced with a clean one after each potential contamination ?

[Svejk]

Seems like he was axed for repeating what happens. People should be kept in the dark, in the interests of racial? harmony.

[naomi24]

The rules on hygiene in the NHS were severely bent several years ago to accommodate the religious foibles of Muslim staff when they were given permission to keep their arms covered. Utterly, utterly wrong! If they won’t make the welfare of patients a priority they should be sent packing to find an alternative career. Well done that man for speaking out. Shame upon whoever took the decision in the first place to bend the rules and equal shame upon whoever took the decision to suspend him.

[mrblear]

I think that's what you might call a rhetorical question on AB

[youngmafbog]

What absolute nonsense.

I am sick of rules being bent to accommodate a religion still in the dark ages.

We need to stand up against this, if our country and its ways do not suit these fanatics than they should find a more suitable country.

I'm also not comfortable with someone (clearly deeply/extgreme Islamic) who would consider me an infidel and who may well have friends who have declared a jihad against me.

[bazwillrun]

Anything from the PC mob to keep the muslims happy...they always get what they want, one way or another sooner or later..

islamification of the UK by the back door...slowly but surely like a growing cancer

[agchristie]

Suspension apropos Religious Surgeon, more commonly known as the SARS virus :(

[whiskeryron]

I'm bloody speechless ( unusually)

[CrapAtCryptics]

Couldnt he have just asked her to replace her hijab with an uncontaminated one and then got on with the operation.

[bazwillrun]

"Couldnt he have just asked her to replace her hijab with an uncontaminated one"

and if she didnt have one there ?

so the hospital suspends a much needed surgeon...bunch of useless PC administrators...

[Retrochic]

What? Do people think the Hijab is welded to the womans head? My consultant wears a scarf around her head and every tine I see her she has a different one on and they are clean and gorgeous.

The issue is the person not changing her hijab -not wearing it in surgery.

[naomi24]

//The issue is the person not changing her hijab -not wearing it in surgery. //

She shouldn't be wearing her own clothing in surgery. The NHS supplies appropriate attire for surgery and that's what she should be wearing.

[Retrochic]

she was not wearing her own 'clothing - she was wearing her own head gear which would have been covered up with a surgical hat.

http://previews.123rf.com/images/ferli/ferli1304/ferli130400056/18892442-portrait-of-muslim-asian-female-Medical-doctor-Stock-Photo.jpg

[naomi24]

If the doctor noticed old blood stains on it, it couldn't have been that well covered. She shouldn't have been wearing it at all.

[Retrochic]

It was seen before scrubbing up - I am not saying she was in the right -she wasn't - but she should have been allowed to change her head gear and continue. But thats my humble opinion not clouded by racial bigotry and discrimination.

[Khandro]

Recovering myself from and operation I recently gazed at surgeon's headgear at close range, it is a sort of cotton balaclava on top of which is worn a mask, and I don't see why these could not be put on top of a hijab.

[naomi24]

Retrochic, // But thats my humble opinion not clouded by racial bigotry and discrimination. //

The welfare of patients should be paramount - even to bigots!

[vulcan42]

In the report it states she refused to remove it and left, further on it states the hospital said religious headscarfs are excluded in areas such as theatre. If all this is true she was in the wrong for wearing it, let alone one with blood on.

[mushroom25]

Retrochick, ultimately the hospital backed the consultant and stated he was right to enforce the infection control rules on dress.

does that, in your book, make the hospital institutionally racist?