NHS becomes politically stupid

I don't get it with the NHS mandarins. Obviously they are in need of brain surgery, preferably new brains if possible. Hot on the heels of the Christian nurse being refused permission to wear a crucifix on a chain, we now get the politically muddled becoming politically stupid.

Muslim doctors and nurses are to be allowed for religious reasons to opt out of strict NHS dress codes introduced to prevent the spread of deadly hospital superbugs. So it's OK if you're a Muslim with a need to follow what you think are rules but not a Christian. The department of Health has some nutters in it.

The Koran does not stipulate how a medic washes. Neither does the Bible. Muslim doctors and medical students said baring arms conflicted with the Koran’s teaching that women must dress modestly in public. In public? Are doctors scrubbing up "in public"? I hardly think a disposable sleeve shoved up the arm is going to help fight superbugs. If modesty problems are causing Muslim medics to swoon and faint let them scrub up under some kind of tent or clinical tabernacle!

It's all a load of tripe. It's this sort of nonsense that causes people to think badly about minorities. In any case, once the discreet scrubbing has been done, what part of the hand and forearm can't be exposed during an operation? It's nonsense leading madness. But then we have a lot of nonsensical people in high places producing the maddening policies imaginable.