Sunday, June 05, 2005

Bible bashers

Hospitals in Leicester are considering removing Gideon's Bibles from hospital wards because they might "offend non Christians" and be "a source of MRSA infection". Members of the "Infection control team" and "Service equality panel" are being consulted to decide what action to take. So we may know by Christmas 2006..

Has the hospital had many complaints from non-Christians about Bible provision on the wards or are they offended on their behalf? Will the "Infection control team" also be banning magazines with non-wipeable covers or childrens' toys that are presumably not steam cleaned each day? Readers Digest and National Geographic will need to find new subscribers!!
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2 comments:

Serf said...

Surely they can remove indivisual Bibles at patients requests.

Typical state sector, they think something should be ubiquitous or banned. No other options are allowed.

12:36 pm
Andrew said...

Will the "Infection control team" also be banning magazines with non-wipeable covers or childrens' toys that are presumably not steam cleaned each day?

If they are sensible, yes. But I would say that - my wife is an infection control nurse, and she battles with this kind of thing every day. State hospitals shouldn't contain anything that isn't medically necessary. Anything a patient brings in is fine, but then they accept the risk that they could infect themselves or others. Another sensible measure to prevent the spread of MRSA would be banning visitors. The Infection control team is probably not behind this move though, although the arse-covering manager is citing their involvement - they have much bigger fish to fry, and tend to be fighting hard against idiotic management decisions, like introducing non-cleanable fabric furniture, and so on...

The PC 'offend non Christians' BS is stupid, though.

1:41 pm

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