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Sharia Alert. You'll just have to trust them that being the wrong gender in the wrong place at the wrong time won't result in denial of care. "Iran wants to keep sexes apart in hospitals," from Agence France-Presse:
TEHRAN, May 8, 2007 (AFP) - Iran's conservative government is encouraging doctors and nurses to treat patients only of the same gender in a bid to bring healthcare in line with its Islamic laws, press reports said on Tuesday.
Health Minister Kamran Bagheri Lankarani said hospitals should implement a 1998 parliament bill that stipulates segregation of sexes known as the "initiative to conform medical care with Sharia law."
"A council has been formed with two parliament members as observers to facilitate the enforcement of this law," the centrist Kargozaran newspaper quoted him as saying.
"We have to respect patients' rights in health centres. A person with any kind of belief should be provided with service.
"Respecting patients' dignity and the 'conformity initiative' should be considered when building new hospitals," he said, adding that old health centres needed to be "corrected" as well.
It is not clear whether sexual segregation in hospitals would become mandatory under the initiative, which appears aimed at encouraging hospitals to keep unrelated men and women apart wherever possible.
Unrelated men and women are not allowed to touch each other under Islamic law. But the 1998 bill drew strong criticism and opposition from health workers who considered it impractical. Many also saw it as an insult to their professional values.
The initiative was shelved at the time partly due to insufficient numbers of qualified staff from each sex.
The strongest protest came from male gynaecologists who said segregation would put them out of business.
Since the Islamic revolution, Iranian male medical students have been barred from specialising in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, meaning the only men practicing in these branches earned their qualifications abroad or before 1979.
The plan essentially targeted women seeking treatment in Iran's male-dominated health care service. However Lankarani said in future it could be men who would need an alternative as "67 percent of medical students are women".
Posted by Marisol at May 8, 2007 10:58 PM
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how would they get enough men and women, doctors and nurses to staff these hospitals?
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at May 8, 2007 11:47 PM
And of course, given the hospitality that the Iranian gov't extends to women seeking an education and a career, there will undoubtedly be a surplus of qualified people to take care of female patients.
You a girl? You need a doctor? Bwahahahaha......
Don'tcha know? Here's the mullahs flipping the bird to their own mama again.
You have to admire their sense of priorities. And keeping people in their place is always number one.
at May 9, 2007 3:36 AM
""We have to respect patients' rights in health centres. A person with any kind of belief should be provided with service."
...I note they do not say "good service" or "quality service." It seems to me that Sharia law goes out of its way to insure that people live miserable lives....
at May 9, 2007 6:04 AM
iran will surely die off with the lack of medical care for women. OB-Gyn services or lack thereof will eventually even affect male children. Oh well, a backward religion based government will kill you faster than anything.
Posted by: CelticCoyote at May 9, 2007 9:02 AM
"The strongest protest came from male gynaecologists who said segregation would put them out of business."
Well duh!
he he he
dunno why just struck me as funny
Posted by: eve_anne_gelical at May 9, 2007 10:26 AM
Darwin Awards to follow.
Posted by: pr126 at May 9, 2007 10:32 AM
And most likely they will be giving lethal injections to non-Islamic patients (if they aren't already doing that now).
Posted by: pythagoras at May 9, 2007 3:07 PM
Across the world, women usually live slightly longer than men. This seems to apply even in very poor countries with bad health care, high infant mortality, and low average life expectancies (even if everyone only expects to live around 50 years or less, women still seem to come out a bit ahead).
BUT - there are four countries in the world in which (according to a factbook I possess, dated around 1999) the female life expectancy is perceptibly LOWER than that of men. One is Buddhist - Bhutan (women 51.83, men 52.77, average life expectancy 52.35). But the others are all Muslim: Afghanistan (women live to 46.29 years, men to 47.35, average is 46.8 - so men live a full year longer than women, bucking the figures for just about every other country in the world including some just as poor as Afghanistan). Bangladesh: men have the edge - women expect to live 56.63, men to 56.69 years - a smaller gap, but still there. The fourth is Niger - females live to 41.21 years, male life expectancy is 44.83 years - so the men live about three years longer than the women.
I don't know why Buddhist Bhutan is doing so badly for its women. But it is, I think, very telling that the other three countries are Muslim. WHAT are they doing to their women, that the world norm - indeed, one might say, the biological norm - of women slightly outliving men, is reversed? (Believe me: I checked the stats for every single other country in the world, in that same book).
I guess this story (and what we saw the Taliban doing) may just give us some idea.
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at May 9, 2007 5:36 PM
This has to be the dumbest thing the iranians have done yet.
Posted by: callmeinfidel at May 9, 2007 7:42 PM
The Mohammed-instituted regulations that keep Moslems from doing what comes naturally has resulted in hordes of angry, sexually frustrated Muslims (I don't know about Muslimahs) looking for sex in all the wrong places. They come to my blog in droves to delve into the posts dealing with Islamic Psychopathy (see http://islamic-danger.blogspot.com/2007/05/is-this-sex-blog-definitely-not-but.html)
That the progenitor of this ideology of unreason and perversion of all human instincts leaning towards the "good" neither lacked sexual outlets (no matter what the age of the receptacle for his lust) made no difference. Sex is strictly controlled by Islam. No matter that pregnant "Palestinian" maidens have to leave the Arab-occupied territories for the ever-open arms of the United States (when their cousins do the dirty deed), sex is strictly suppressed by the Islamic establishment.
Posted by: unicorns62000 at May 9, 2007 11:54 PM
http://islamic-danger.blogspot.com/2007/05/is-this-sex-blog-definitely-not-but.html
Posted by: unicorns62000 at May 9, 2007 11:56 PM
I do not think so..
perhaps the re-addressing of Roe V Wade might make eveyone here think twice about criticising the Iranians about their implmentation of morality,
We in the U.s are about to repeal this law.
I perosnally beleive that abortion is a killing of human life, the man has no say, the body of a woman is protected. The rights of woman are held up to extreme here, we are on the other end of the spectrum.
When it comes to punishment we discharge our rulings in thes same way as the Iranians, Justice is limited in scope and due to the limited wisdom of the judges.
I think Jesus would have viewed this article with disdain.
Pete
at May 9, 2007 11:58 PM
Do they need two differently gendered doctors for a sex-change operation.
One coming and going?
(It must be a bitch to be a Muslim hermaphrodite.)
Posted by: profitsbeard at May 10, 2007 12:41 AM
this idiotic idea is just showing how backwards is lamb and Islamic countries are this idiotic idea that we have keep the sexes apart or we will have an instant orgy , is just showing how backwards is the nations are
Posted by: godisnotallha at May 10, 2007 1:55 AM
"Justice is limited in scope and due to the limited wisdom of the judges."
Posted by: Peter
...if you are referring to California judges, they indeed have limited wisdom..very limited wisdom, indeed....and they think scope is a mouthwash...
at May 10, 2007 9:46 AM
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