Can a hospital refuse to treat patients just because of their government's actions?
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A Swiss hospital suspended a project treating rich private patients from Arab lands on Tuesday in reaction to the confirmation of the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses in Libya.
Manager Andreas Gattiker of the regional hospital of Wetzikon said in a radio interview that he doesn't understand how nurses can be responsible for an HIV infection. The five Bulgarian nurses, together with a Palestinian doctor, were sentenced to death for knowingly infecting children with HIV. During the trial experts have declared that AIDS was around in the Benghazi hospital before the foreigners came to work.
Source: Standaard (Dutch)
5 comments:
I guess they realized the public was not happy with the plan: It is a public hospital.
Good. Let muslim docotrs treat muslim patients...in the burn unit!
"Dr. Mohammed is need in the burn unit. Dr. Morhammed to the burn unit."
wtf? israeli doctors treat tens of thousands of palestinian patients every year (link), despite enduring daily missile attacks from gaza. and thats how it should be. if anything can be a bridge to peace in this impossible situation, surely it is showing your enemy that you regard their life as worth something.
if this is how the swiss react to the libyan crisis, they certainly aren't ready for the rocket attacks or suicide bombings that europe has to look forward to.
"if anything can be a bridge to peace in this impossible situation, surely it is showing your enemy that you regard their life as worth something."
I guess you still dont get it. You can be nice to these people until you are blue in the face, they dont care. They will still want to kill you.
"if this is how the swiss react to the libyan crisis"
"The swiss"? One hospital that wanted some incremental business and realized the owner (the people of the district, that is) did not want that.
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