A gown designed for female Muslim patients who wish to preserve their modesty for religious reasons is being introduced to hospitals in Lancashire.
The £12 outfits - made in Yorkshire - cover the entire head, neck and body, leaving just a slot for the eyes. The burqua-style gowns come with trousers, two styles of head-dress and elasticated cuffs to prevent women’s arms from being revealed.
I think it is crap. In the hospitals, Muslims think of observing Hijab while on other occasions, they throw it away. What is the need to wear this terrorist gown in the hospital???
Anybody makes any sense out of it??? What has gone wrong with British Muslims??? To me this is too hilarious
I think it's good for those that cover ONLY when you have to roam around the halls.
To wear it inside the room is ridiculous because here in American at least....no matter how much you request an all female staff chances are you are going to end up getting at least one male checking up on you because you cant control who is on call and/or who is available at that time. That guy is going to have to check up on you. You cant keep covered from a male doctor!. :S
Besides i much rather wear a long robe or nightgown of my own rather than that ugly thing! and for those that do niqaab put your own niqaab on.
I’ve never had to stay in a hospital (and lets hope it stays that way inshallah :halo: ) but i’ve heard that their gowns wll reveal the backside. It is therefore understandable why any patients would want to stay covered up in that sense. But whoever chooses to wear such an outfit, they are usually very strict with hijab outside the hospital to begin with; also if they’re the type that think exposing themselves even to a docotr is considered wrong, well then you can’t expect them to really have very much sense can you. So your comment is pretty useless, unless you think covering your ass in the hospital falls under hijab
I think we should be a little more sensitive and not mock those who prefer to strictly adhere to a particular dress code. If the hospital is willing to accomodate them, then who are we to make fun of them?
Will they also refuse to be treated by male doctors?
Checking the patient's condition under all that could be very hard. How do even breathe under that? What if the patient needs oxygen, how will they get it safely through that covering?
I think since this could interfere with saving a patients life in an emergency, it is unislamic.
this particular modesty "dress" could turn into a gown like an ‘abaya’, & be a bit more proper ‘for women’, and functional as well.
i feel that this specific photograph indicates a totally awkward version of an attire. its not even a gown.
in clinical settings, modesty will not preclude anyone from getting checked all over, for medical reasons & rightly so.
as a female, i will always go to a female doctor and would like to say that all other females should go to female doctors for the sake of privacy & psychological comfort. that is where my conservatism lays for my own personal sense of modesty.
& i do feel that people can change with time & with needs. so whatever suits people, but it should not be made into something bizarre.
its a personal issue for the patient who ideally may be able to handle it with the help of her doctor in a better way.
1) First of all this gown is not like a Hijab, it is more like a joke. Look at the picture, the woman looks like an extraterristrial creature, a full fledge army commando/gaurilla. It is hilarious for me
2) Simple modest dress will suffice instead of this specially prepared uniform.
3) Why is this hijab only necessary in the hospital? Why not outside? Of course, this green color code is the Operation Theather specific.
4) What about examination by male docs without necessity? Doesn't it violate the hijab aspect of a woman's obligation?
surveying is a wonderful research method to see what the common educated people feel and think about a given slightly debatable issue.
i know people have male gynecologists, and female urologists.
but i think that whether we accept this or not, it even might make the doctors uncomfortable.
in bio-medical ethics, i have written papers on this topic of patient privacy and i know, even in a liberal culture like in the US, people have their limits.
no one is doubting the equal merit of the opposite gender of doctor.
it is a matter of choice, comfort and modesty.
dushi
Checking the patient's condition under all that could be very hard. How do even breathe under that? What if the patient needs oxygen, how will they get it safely through that covering?
I think since this could interfere with saving a patients life in an emergency, it is unislamic.
Waisey Lahore i find it really interesting, on one hand you argue that ABCDs/BBCDs are gonna be throwing Quran in the toilet and degrading Islam, and yet when they come up with something like this to adhere to their religious beliefs, you think British Muslims yet again are doing something wrong in your eyes. I think you just like to find fault with anything that American or British Muslims do.
You miss the point. The gown is intended to stop all but those who need to see the woman's body from seeing it.
Fine, maybe there is only a male doctor who can treat her, and she WILL have to be seen by that male doctor. That can't be avoided. However, as she moves around the hospital, why should other males who have nothing to do with treating her be able to see her?
Such a gown is designed so that only those who have a medical need to vilate the woman's modesty will be able to do so. Casual observers will be denied.
I think it is a wonderful idea; the fact that it was invented by a non-Muslim in Britain who wants to make Muslims feel more comfortable, and quickly was adopted by several hospitals (all run by non-Muslims) is a testament to the acceptance and tolerance of Islam by British society at large.
I can't see something like this taking off in less tolerant societies like the USA and quite possibly even Canada.
^ Yeah because its ridiculous. I've seen loads of muslim patients in hospitals who don't seem to mind that they're in the gown they are in. When I've been in the hospital (numerous times) no one ever told me to take my pants off and walk around with a backless gown. I was wearing jeans under the gown. Often times, I was wearing a shirt too.
Furthermore, for situations where in an emergency, you need to access the patient's body immediately, this gown is not practical. And does it really matter, since everyone accedes that if there is only a male doctor on call, then he's got not choice but to see her body? Doctors are trained to set aside their personal selves to treat a patient.
If the female patient wants to walk around outside her room, she can very well have her own hijab with her. Wearing a green niqab in this manner is simply RIDICULOUS and slightly abnormal. Why not wear your own hijab? And not all women wear niqabs. Some suffice with a hijab.
I just think this is totally unnecessary. As if people don't have other things to worry about.
I very much doubt that. Not only was this designed by an expert in hospital wear (the linen services manager at a hospital) but it was highly succesful during trials at UK hospitals. If it actually intefered with access to the body it would not have been so successfuly as to be widely adopted by hospitals.
I’ll just repeat what I said earlier. Perhaps if you actually read my post this time, you will see that I had answered this question of your even before you asked it. Dang but I am that wise
"Fine, maybe there is only a male doctor who can treat her, and she WILL have to be seen by that male doctor. That can’t be avoided. However, as she moves around the hospital, why should other males who have nothing to do with treating her be able to see her?
Such a gown is designed so that only those who have a medical need to vilate the woman’s modesty will be able to do so. Casual observers will be denied."
