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Wednesday, December 05, 2007

PARTIAL CLIMB-DOWN BY DHIMMI NHS: TURN BEDS FOR TERMINALLY ILL MUSLIMS ONLY

DAILY STAR:
HOSPITAL chiefs who told nurses to point Muslim patients’ beds towards Mecca five-times-a-day last night climbed down.

They said they would now only do it for the “terminally ill”. Nurses had been breaking off from health care duties to perform the ritual at Dewsbury and District Hospital in West Yorks.

But patients’ relatives, doctors, nurses, an MP and even a Muslim councillor said it heaped extra pressure on staff and discriminated against other faiths. The Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust had revealed how hundreds of staff were being given special “cultural awareness training” to ensure Muslim patients have a “more comfortable experience in hospital”. [THERE'S MORE - RTWT.]
WELL.... IT'S A START... [INITIAL POST HERE.]

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