The
government is to lift a ban that stops healthcare staff with HIV performing
certain medical procedures.
Healthcare staff in England, Wales
and Scotland having HIV treatment will be able to take part in all tasks,
including surgery and dentistry.
England's chief medical officer,
Prof Dame Sally Davies, said it was time to scrap “outdated rules”.
Call me old fashioned but, touch
wood, if I had to go into hospital I’d prefer that I was treated with someone
who didn’t have HIV.
Prof Davies says the risk to this is “negligible”,
but it’s still adding risk and I don’t see the rationale in introducing a new
source of risk, no matter how small, into hospitals which are incubators for viruses,
diseases etc.
This means that there is a greater chance of HIV
being transmitted, and who does that benefit? This is a case of liberalism
going a step too far and usurping common sense.
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