A Muslim denounces gender discrimination because a doctor attended his wife at the Salsburg hospital.
The man complains that his wife was attended to by a male doctor at a public Austrian centre. The hospital rejects the request.
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A Muslim man has demanded that the Landeskliniken Salzburg (SALK), the public hospital system of the Austrian region, that his wife is attended to only by female doctors. According to the Austrian media outlet express.at, The patient has appealed to the patient advocate to formalise his complaint after his wife was attended to by a man.
The woman, who wears a full-face veil and, according to her husband, She cannot be touched by any man outside her immediate family., she should have been seen by a duty doctor. The man believes that this situation violates their religious convictions and has stated that he feels discriminated against because his request was not granted.
The hospital reminds us that you cannot choose a doctor based on their gender.
The management of SALK has responded that There is no legal basis that allows patients to demand medical staff of a specific gender. As the hospital spokesperson has explained, The Austrian public healthcare system assigns doctors and doctors according to availability and duty rosters., and no exceptions are permitted on religious or cultural grounds.
The patient advocate, Gerhard Jelinek, has confirmed that There is no legal basis for the complaint.. It has been recalled that the right to dignified medical care does not include the choice of the gender of medical staff, and that gender discrimination in a public space such as a hospital cannot be justified.
This episode has opened an uncomfortable debate in Austria about the compatibility between religious requirements and universal public services, especially when the intention is to impose gender segregation in spaces such as hospitals or schools.
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