The ruling on what affects a doctor’s skin and clothing during surgeries
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Question:
This questioner says, O Shaykh: During the performance of some surgeries, the clothes—even the undergarments—and the skin get wet with blood and urine, and this may happen repeatedly during the day. Does the doctor have to perform the full ritual bath (ghusl) in that case, or is the ablution (wudu') sufficient?
Answer:
He has to wash what affected him, or change his clothes for clean ones. Whatever affected the body, whether it was the leg, the hand, or something similar, he washes it. He does not have to perform the full ritual bath (ghusl).
He has to wash only what affected him: what affected the body, or what affected the clothing if he is going to pray in it, or he changes it for another and prays in clean clothing. Whatever affected the leg, the head, or the face is washed.
This questioner says, O Shaykh: During the performance of some surgeries, the clothes—even the undergarments—and the skin get wet with blood and urine, and this may happen repeatedly during the day. Does the doctor have to perform the full ritual bath (ghusl) in that case, or is the ablution (wudu') sufficient?
Answer:
He has to wash what affected him, or change his clothes for clean ones. Whatever affected the body, whether it was the leg, the hand, or something similar, he washes it. He does not have to perform the full ritual bath (ghusl).
He has to wash only what affected him: what affected the body, or what affected the clothing if he is going to pray in it, or he changes it for another and prays in clean clothing. Whatever affected the leg, the head, or the face is washed.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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