Patient Dies Because of Religion

Submitted by Mark D (United States), Mar 7, 2014 at 19:00

Muslim nurse prays, patient dies: On Oct. 24, 2011, Dorothy Griffiths, 87 and an Alzheimer's victim, fell from her bed to the floor at the Valley Park Nursing Home in South Yorkshire, England, cutting her head and incurring a gash to her hip. Zoe Shaw saw her on the ground and went to get agency nurse-in-charge Abdul Bhutto, for help to lift her. But Bhutto said Griffiths would have to wait until he finished praying. As Shaw testified to a legal hearing: "It took between five and ten minutes because he was praying upstairs in the office on his prayer mat. A staff member told me we had to wait for him to finish." Griffiths subsequently died of her bruises. Bhutto did not appear at the inquest and had to be issued a summons to get him to attend. (March 23, 2012)

If I'd been wearing a blood pressure cuff it would have popped off my arm. See what religion does ...

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