Saudi Arabia: Women Want More Female Doctors After Haia Action

[Sally]

You can't blame these women. This would never go on in the civilized world.

Saudi Arabia: Women Want More Female Doctors After Haia Action
February 20, 2014


By Arab News

By Fouzia Khan

Saudi women have reacted strongly to reports of women being prevented from visiting hospitals without a male guardian by members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Haia) recently.

The Haia members acted after a member of the Council of Senior Scholars issued a “fatwa” (edict) prohibiting women from seeing male doctors without being accompanied by male guardians.
The women demanded that the authorities hire female doctors especially for conducting ultra sound and in gynecology departments.

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[Roudy]

You can't blame these women. This would never go on in the civilized world.

Saudi Arabia: Women Want More Female Doctors After Haia Action
February 20, 2014


By Arab News

By Fouzia Khan

Saudi women have reacted strongly to reports of women being prevented from visiting hospitals without a male guardian by members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Haia) recently.

The Haia members acted after a member of the Council of Senior Scholars issued a “fatwa” (edict) prohibiting women from seeing male doctors without being accompanied by male guardians.
The women demanded that the authorities hire female doctors especially for conducting ultra sound and in gynecology departments.

Continue reading at:

Saudi Arabia: Women Want More Female Doctors After Haia Action Eurasia Review

What this ruling suggests is that Arab Muslim men cannot be trusted, even if they're Doctors.