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http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3413

Distorted media reports on Muslim doctors’ hygiene widely condemned

By Elham Asaad Buaras

“Inaccurate and Islamophobic and racist.” That is the verdict of Liverpool’s largest children’s hospital over claims that its Muslim medics protested against new hygiene guidelines on religious grounds.

The Liverpool Echo reported that female Muslim medical students at the Alder Hey hospital “objected to rolling up their sleeves when washing their hands and removing arm coverings in theatre, claiming it is regarded as immodest.”
The story which first appeared online on February 26 with the headline ‘Muslim Medics in Alder Hey Stand-Off’ , was subsequently picked up by The Daily Mail which reported that ‘Muslim Medics refuse to roll up their sleeves in hygiene crack down - because it’s against their religion’, whist The Daily Telegraph alleged that ‘Female Muslim medics “disobey hygiene rules”’.

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Speaking to The Muslim News, a spokesperson for The Royal Liverpool Children’s NHS Trust fervently refuted the allegations made in The Liverpool Echo, which she said left staff and students “very distressed”.

“The Liverpool Echo ran a story that was frankly misleading, inaccurate, untrue and racist in our view. We have taken this up with them and made a formal complaint about their very poor covering of this subject, which has no foundation or substance to it.

“Not a single student or medic asked not to scrub. In terms of the arm covering, we provide long surgical gloves that stretch to the elbow, and no student refused to wear them.”

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