Hospital Gowns to suit your religion

kizzyr

Do you think that this will ever happen here in Ireland as it seems to be in England? If so what are your views on it?
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/...9.i7c4tz8n.html
http://www.express.co.uk/images/new...s/large/381.jpg
A hospital in northwest England has introduced a new surgical gown modelled on the burka, allowing female Muslim patients to cover themselves completely in line with their religious beliefs.

"If people want to live in Britain, then they must accept British standards and the British way of life... The standard hospital gown is surely good enough for everyone."

The paper reported that the gowns cost 12 pounds (18 euros/23 dollars) each.

stevenmu

Hopefully someone from the Islam forum can cofirm or deny this, but I'm fairly sure that Islam is generally very practical when it comes to things like this. Doctors, and other essential service providers, work during holy days where traditionally Muslims aren't supposed to work, and so on. In line with this, I'd imagine that if a Muslim was ill enough to require wearing a hospital gown, there wouldn't be any real problem with them wearing a standard one, so hopefully we won't see them here in Ireland, if the health service has any intelligence ...


*buys shares in burka-gown company*

kizzyr

stevenmu wrote:

Hopefully someone from the Islam forum can cofirm or deny this, but I'm fairly sure that Islam is generally very practical when it comes to things like this. Doctors, and other essential service providers, work during holy days where traditionally Muslims aren't supposed to work, and so on. In line with this, I'd imagine that if a Muslim was ill enough to require wearing a hospital gown, there wouldn't be any real problem with them wearing a standard one, so hopefully we won't see them here in Ireland, if the health service has any intelligence ...


*buys shares in burka-gown company*

Thats a laughable concept isn't it?

bonkey

kizzyr wrote:

If so what are your views on it?

I don't see a problem with it....particularly in Ireland where the patient gets a hospital bill at the end of the day.

If they want it, and they're willing to pay for it, I don't see why they should be denied it because someone else thinks its wrong to be accomodating.

Undue distress is not conducive to a rapid recovery. Hospitals are the first places that leeway like this should be given, even if one holds to the crazy notion that there's some sort of established, national way of life that everyone has to conform to.

jc

RoundyMooney

I knew that this was going to relate to Islamic culture before I clicked the header.

Cynical, Moi?

If such cultural concessions are to be made (and I remain unconvinced that these ideas originate with lobbying by the "minorities" involved, but rather with hand wringing campaigns from certain elements of the host nations), then they should be bilateral in nature. In other words, we should expect the same courtesies, as much as practically possible, in predominantly, in this case, Muslim countries.

Not too much to ask is it?

Black Swan

Could a sun worshipper get a bikini? :cool:

Dave!

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