From Saudi Arabia with love, at Rs 500 a piece: MS brings burqas for Mayo Hospital nurses
By Afnan Khan
LAHORE: Mayo Hospital medical superintendent Dr Fayaz Ranjha has asked nurses to wear burqas on the job and is allegedly selling cloth for the purpose at Rs 500 a piece. Hospital officials said a Saudi Arabian philanthropist had gifted him the cloth during his recent visit to the country for umra. …
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LAHORE: Mayo Hospital medical superintendent Dr Fayaz Ranjha has asked nurses to wear burqas on the job and is allegedly selling cloth for the purpose at Rs 500 a piece. Hospital officials said a Saudi Arabian philanthropist had gifted him the cloth during his recent visit to the country for umra.
“The MS held a meeting with nurses and urged them to follow Islamic teachings,” an official told Daily Times.
Dr Ranjha denied compelling nurses to make burqa part of their uniform. “I have only urged them to use hijabs (veils),” he added. He denied buying or getting the cloth from Saudi Arabia.
A nurse said the cloth was fine and cost at least Rs 4,000 in the market. She said most nurses had bought it and intended to use it for shalwar kameez. A source said the MS had held meetings with “a well-off Arab” in Saudi Arabia. One of Dr Ranjha’s hosts said the Arab philanthropist had gifted him the cloth after the doctor told him of his philanthropy at Mayo Hospital and helping earthquake victims.
He said Dr Ranjha told the person that he wanted his nurses to wear the veil but the government could not afford to pay for the new addition to their uniform.
Dr Ranjha met the nurses in the hospital’s committee room soon after his return about a week and a half ago, an official said.
A senior staff nurse said the MS asked all the nurses to wear burqas and adopt “the Islamic culture” so that they would look more devout. He then offered the cloth for cheap to the nurses who couldn’t afford burqas. Another nurse, attending the meeting (originally called to discuss nurses’ problems) said the deputy chief nursing superintendent, the deputy nursing superintendent, and other senior nurses then met the MS again. Dr Ranjha told them he had brought very fine cloth from Saudi Arabia, she said.
Additional medical superintendent Dr Manzoor Chaudhry confirmed part of the story but said the hospital did not intend to change the nurses’ uniform. He said getting cloth from Saudi Arabia was Dr Ranjha’s personal matter and the nurses were free to wear burqas after duty hours.
Re: From Saudi Arabia with love, at Rs 500 a piece: MS brings burqas for Mayo Hospita
Are women allowed to look after men in hospitals in Pakistan? If so, is it right under Sharia?
yes it is truely Islamic , to serve the community as a lady doctor , nurse , midwife or just plain volunteer , muslim women during time of huzrat muhammed p.b.u.h used to look after worriers & soldiers during wars/ guzwaats etc
