In Malaysia, woman was not allowed in A&E because her skirt was too short - The Independent News

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A lady wearing a skirt over her knee was denied entry to a hospital’s emergency section to visit her father, and the incident has since gone viral, with the blame now falling on the security officers. Eliza tweeted on March 16 that she went to the Selayang Hospital Issue Department to see her father, who …

The event prompted Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah to respond on Twitter, stating that hospital employees had been instructed to use “proper communication” while dealing with patients and their next-of-kin.

“The Selayang Hospital’s Security Department has taken action to improve its service by reprimanding the security personnel, that she has to adopt appropriate communication procedures when dealing with patients and next of kin so that such incident will not happen again,” the Health DG tweeted. An example of aggressive enforcement of clothing regulations at government offices is an incident at the Gombak Road Transport Department office, when a guard forced a woman to wear a sarong.

 

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