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[quote][blue]comments from doctors net[/blue]

[size=4][u][purple]Clean hands or a Pure Heart?[/purple][/u][/size=4]

[blue]Hospital managers have denied they are planning to ban bedside Bibles - although they admit they regard them as a hygiene hazard. 
Managers in Leicester say they are looking for ways for "safer storage" of religious materials. 
The city's hospitals have been reported as planning to remove the bedside Gideon bibles. [/blue]

Two reasons have been cited for the decision - [purple]fear of MRSA and alleged offence to muslims. [/purple]

Pauline Tagg, director of nursing at Leicester Universities NHS Trust, told the BBC: "They are not disposable they haven't got a wipeable cover.

"If they are stained or contaminated then they cannot be cleaned effectively."

[blue]Trust spokeswoman Anne McGregor said: "We are taking advice from our infection control teams - and our service equality panel - to see how we can best make religious material available."

But Gideons International dismissed the claims of an infection risk as "nonsense". [/blue]

(I personally cannot understand why should it be an alleged offence to muslims as we still find words of wisdom there.)[/quote]

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