by Dr Sohail Badat, Dr Rohan Butt, Zaheer Badat. | Dec 31, 2020
Abstract During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers were asked to clean-shave their facial hair in order to comply with PPE regulations. This proposed a challenge for Muslim male healthcare workers sporting facial hair as it is intimately...
by Dr. Hina J Shahid | Dec 31, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on pre-existing intersecting and compounding inequalities and injustices. Data shows that Muslims in the UK are more likely to die from COVID-191. However, when social deprivation and ethnicity are controlled for, this...
by Musa Mohd Nordin, Sharif Kaf Al-Ghazal, Muhammad Wajid Akhter. | Dec 31, 2020
Introduction COVID-19 affects different cohorts in the population differently and disproportionately. Older people, the male sex, certain ethnic groups, and certain geographical regions have a higher risk of acquiring the infection, experience a more severe form of...
by Pushpa Momin BDS, MFDS (RCS Ed), Sophina Mahmood BDS, MFDS (RCS Ed) | Aug 26, 2020
Abstract Tower Hamlets has the largest Bangladeshi population in the UK, making up nearly 32% of the borough. Within the area, there are significant language and cultural barriers that hinder the effective delivery of preventative oral health care. A project...
by Orhan Önder, MD, Aasim Padela, MD. | Apr 29, 2020
ABSTRACT: During their educational life, medical students encounter several challenges, the origins and causes of which vary. This paper explores and attempts to scrutinize two of these challenges, before eventually introducing the concept of responsibility. First,...
