Muslims patients must pray 5 times a day....

This is from the UK - the NHS should provide great health care, and not worry about whether they can pray 5 times a day...

Keen to provide a comfortable stay for Muslim patients in hospitals, Britain’s National Health Service has ordered nursing staff to stop all medical work five times every day to allow the patients’ to pray with their faces facing Mecca.

The lengthy procedure, which also includes providing fresh bathing water, is creating turmoil among overstretched staff in NHS wards, reports The Daily Express.

The Mid- Yorkshire NHS Trust says the rule must be applied whenever possible.

The taxpayer-funded training programme for several hundred-hospital staff has begun to ensure that all are familiar with the workings of the Muslim faith.

The scheme is initially being run at Dewsbury and District Hospital, West Yorkshire, but is to be introduced at other hospitals in the New Year.