A hospital has become first in the UK to give female Muslim doctors and medical staff disposal hijabs to wear to avoid germs being passed to patients.
“I’d been using [the same headscarf] all-day which obviously wasn’t clean and ideal,” Farah Roslan, a junior doctor who came up with the hijab’s design, told BBC Radio Derby.
“I didn’t feel comfortable taking it off and I was pulled out from the theatre, respectfully, due to infection control.”
Malaysian-born Roslan said she looked for her home country for ideas before creating a design and testing fabrics.
“I am so happy my vision has become a reality and that these headscarves are now available for all of the staff. I’m really happy and looking forward to seeing if we can endorse this nationally.”
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The University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Trust are now the first in Britain to start using her creation.
Islam sees hijab as an obligatory code of dress, not a religious symbol displaying one’s affiliations.
The estimates of 2009 suggested a total of about 2.4 million Muslims over all the UK. According to the Pew Forum, the number of Muslims in Britain could now be around 3 million.
The Islamic Medical Association estimates that about 10,000 Muslim doctors and nurses practice in the UK.