How to respect everyone’s beliefs in a hospital setting? To ensure good secular practice in hospitals, the Secularism Observatory is developing a guide on the management of religion in public health establishments. This should be published before the end of February 2016, according to the daily The cross.
Respect neutrality
This guide aims to provide the keys to respect the beliefs of patients while ensuring the delivery of sufficient health care. “At the hospital, as at school and at work, we need to know the rules, to remember them and to enforce them.” insisted Jean-Louis Bianco, president of the Observatory of secularism, on the antenna of France Info. This guide is intended for both patients and caregivers, recalling that everyone has rights, including that of manifesting one’s belief or worship”to the extent that there is no proselytism, disorder.” Corn, “if the patient’s right to free choice of his practitioner and his establishment is a fundamental principle, the exercise of this right must not disturb the dispensation of care and be reconciled with the rules of organization of the service“recalls La Croix. At the same time, the duty of neutrality must be respected within the confines of hospitals. This concerns in particular the nursing staff and the students in training who must not wear religious symbols.
This thorny subject of respect for secularism is already the subject of guides intended for socio-educational structures, private companies and local authorities.
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