It is not permissible for a doctor or anyone else to be alone with a female doctor or a female patient

Q: Some workers in the health sector are required by their jobs to be alone with a non-mahram woman, especially in the late night in the inpatient wards within the doctors' designated offices. When they are advised of the necessity of finding a solution for such matters, they blame the officials. So what if there were guidance and direction in such cases?

A: It is obligatory that trustworthy men take charge of this. And if the need calls for women, it is obligatory that they be a group of women so that no seclusion occurs. A group of women is two or more, who are separate and independent, and the men are alone by themselves. These are for the women and these are for the men. It is not permissible for a man to be alone with a woman who is not his mahram, neither at night nor during the day. It is not permissible for a doctor or anyone else to be alone with a female doctor or a female patient, due to the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): .