Well sounds just like what the British people needed - at least the muslims living in Britain - a pharmacy that caters to muslims who choose to fast during the observance of Ramadan.

"The Co-operative Pharmacy is offering free "medicine checks" during the holy month of Islam to make sure Muslim customers' health is not affected if they stop eating between sunrise and sunset. For the first time, the chain has specially trained pharmacists at 40 branches in areas where there are large numbers of Muslims to teach them how fasting can affect the effectiveness of drugs."

Britain is certainly no novice when it comes to back-bending pandering to muslims- in the medical arena. Clearly high priorities are placed on the health, well being and keeping muslims content. But what is glaringly missing is the negative effects that Ramadan and other Islamic based "requirements" have on the medical health and care of the non-muslim British population. A quick search of the net brings the following quickly to note:

Background: The "Trials of Ramadan Fasting" and the negative effects that the fasting and lack of sleep have on muslims mean their non-muslim co-workers get to pick up the "slack" during the month of Ramadan

Healthcare workers banned from eating at their desks, or infront of muslims, as it may offend muslims during Ramadan. Thus the non muslim has to find another spot to eat in - and take their work with them if it is a working lunch OR NOT EAT AT ALL. One also has to wonder what kind of critical decisions, surgical procedures, etc an underfed or sleep deprived doctor is capable of making.

Bedridden patients in British hospitals get to wait for care while nurses spin the beds with muslims towards Mecca.

Non muslims also get to be at higher risk for the virulent and often fatal MRSA bug since muslim visitors refuse to use the anti MRSA gel.

If the above isn't bad enough - patients receiving treatment from female muslim doctors and medical  staff get to worry that their illness could be worsened by picking up the MRSA bug from their care providers who refuse to obey hospital hygiene rules saying it's "against their religion". (Perhaps ALL British hospital patients should wear this to protect themselves??)

Perhaps it is a mixed blessing then - that some muslim doctors refuse to treat patients of the opposite sex AND epecially since the muslim MDs refuse to attend any medical educational lectures, and thus refuse to be educated on anything that deals with sexually transmitted disease or ANY medical disease or condition that they consider in conflict with their religion.

And last but not least - let us recall the the constitution of the Muslim Doctors and Dentists Association of the UK states their main object is to ADVANCE THE ISLAMIC RELIGION IN THE UK and to promote and preserve the good health of MUSLIMS in the UK. Non-muslims NOT mentioned.

Thus the steady drumbeat towards Islamisation and the implementation of Sharia medical care in Great Britain continues - But the question remains - How deleterious an effect has this "medical" pandering to muslims had on the overall medical care of the non muslim British population?? (Or is even posturing the question going to elicit the ususal response of being cited as another sign of the (myth of) Islamophobia? )

The British people deserve and should demand a swift and accurately researched answer -------