Muslim Prayer Room in German Hospital
The Augsburg hospital has launched a Muslim Prayer room to address the high demand by Muslim patients.
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Muslims refuse male gynaecologists
BRUSSELS – More and more Muslims are refusing to allow a male gynaecologist to attend at their wives’ deliveries, says the head of gynaecology at the Brussels University Hospital VUB and the Ghent University Hospital. Various newspapers have reported on the problem. The Flemish Association of Gynaecologists are urging for a strict, uniform policy in…
Cleric in Beating
A MUSLIM cleric was in a serious condition in hospital last night after being brutally attacked in a mosque. The 58-year-old imam, who has not been named, suffered heavy blood loss, damage to both eyes and had to undergo emergency surgery. The attack took place on Friday in London’s Regent’s Park mosque. The Met Police…
Holy water, ablution cans and infection hazard
According to Gillian Hodgson, an infection control nurse at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Holy water can be dangerous. She told nurses at a Royal College of Nursing Congress fringe meeting about a child in a paediatric oncology unit who developed the bacterial infection pseudomonas after his lips were wiped with holy water. Nursing Standard…
Muslim’s Lawsuit Alleges Humiliation; Aim is to Increase Tolerance, Attorney Says
Just before he was scheduled to undergo surgery to treat oral cancer, Mohammed A. Hussain went to the bathroom at the hospital — and that’s when he says the humiliation began. Inside the restroom at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, the 61-year-old Muslim performed the Islamic ritual of washing his hands and…