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Strict Islamic laws hit womenâs health in NWFP
PESHAWAR: Male doctors and technicians have been banned from carrying out ultrasound examinations and using electrocardiographs (ECG) on female patients by the Islamist government of Pakistanâs North West Frontier province in its latest step towards implementation of Shariah. The ban effectively excludes all women from undergoing such crucial medical examinations as the province has only one female ECG technician and none trained in ultrasound. âWe think that men could derive sexual pleasure from womenâs bodies while conducting ECG or ultrasound,â explained Maulana Gul Naseeb Khan, the provincial general secretary of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), the six-party religious alliance which now governs the North West Frontier. âSimilarly some women could lure men under the pretext of ECG or ultrasound. The clerics have already banned public dancing and music, kite flying and satellite television. They have closed cinemas, photographic shops and beauty parlours, and have torn down billboards displaying female images. Posted by: TS 2003-09-28 |
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