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Dubai: Female nurses allowed to see genitals

The United Arab Emirates’ top Islamic ruling body said the exposure of sensitive parts of the woman’s body to female nurses at intensive care units is permissible.
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A young boy checks medical equipments inside the operating room of ORBIS, the flying eye hospital, as visitors listen to an explanation by one of the hospital staffers at Dubai airport September 11, 2008. (KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images)

An Emirati nurse has just joined the gynecology section at a UAE hospital and she wanted to know if she is allowed to see female patients’ genitals.

I know it sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it’s actually a true story.

Or, at least, that’s what the Arabic language daily Al Khaleej reported.

The Fatwa (Islamic edict) center at the Ministry of Justice, responded to her:

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