The Evils in Hospitals and the Mixing of Doctors with Women
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Question:
Another person asks, saying: Can Your Eminence, Shaykh 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Baz, prevent the evils present in the large hospitals here in the Kingdom? Among these evils, doctors prevent sick women from wearing the hijab. All the workers in the women's and obstetrics department are men, and they are alone with the women. A room is assigned to each woman alone, and the worker enters it. My wife was admitted to the aforementioned hospital, and when I visited her, she greeted me with tears. When I asked her, she said that the worker entered her room after midnight and tried to violate her honor, but she resisted by screaming and he fled.
Answer:
We can intercede and mediate, but forbidding the evil is up to Allah, then to the state. We can mediate and work to please Allah as much as possible. The state has issued a general directive that a doctor or nurse must not be alone with a female patient; there must be someone else with him. This is a general reality in the state, but mistakes may occur. A mistake may happen on the part of some nurses or some doctors. One does not condemn the mistake, because faith is weak and Satan is present, and there is no power or strength except with Allah.
Another person asks, saying: Can Your Eminence, Shaykh 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Baz, prevent the evils present in the large hospitals here in the Kingdom? Among these evils, doctors prevent sick women from wearing the hijab. All the workers in the women's and obstetrics department are men, and they are alone with the women. A room is assigned to each woman alone, and the worker enters it. My wife was admitted to the aforementioned hospital, and when I visited her, she greeted me with tears. When I asked her, she said that the worker entered her room after midnight and tried to violate her honor, but she resisted by screaming and he fled.
Answer:
We can intercede and mediate, but forbidding the evil is up to Allah, then to the state. We can mediate and work to please Allah as much as possible. The state has issued a general directive that a doctor or nurse must not be alone with a female patient; there must be someone else with him. This is a general reality in the state, but mistakes may occur. A mistake may happen on the part of some nurses or some doctors. One does not condemn the mistake, because faith is weak and Satan is present, and there is no power or strength except with Allah.
Source
ندوات الجامع الكبير مع الأسئلة - 44 — archive.org (31:29)
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