Muslim women fear treatment of feminine conditions

This is an interesting but not surprising look at the abysmal lack of health care for Muslim women. It's not surprising in as much as women are only worth half that of a man and are treated as chattel under Sharia. I guess the men don't care much for the well being of their wives (plural) because if one dies, he can just "buy" another.

This is just one aspect of what will happen to any country over run by Islam.

FROM WORLDNETDAILY.COM:

Muslim women fear treatment of feminine conditions
Husbands threaten divorce while male gynecologists being killed

Posted: March 12, 2008
11:15 pm Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
JAFFA – A group of American doctors who founded a gynecology information website in December said they were surprised to learn nearly half the traffic has come from Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian countries, including, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran and Malaysia.
The strange traffic patterns might highlight a worrying phenomenon in the Muslim countries where studies indicate large numbers of women refrain from seeking medical attention for feminine diseases for fear of being divorced, generating family stigma or due to Islamic restrictions on seeing male doctors.
"Are our high Middle Eastern traffic trends a good thing or not?" asked Saul Weinreb, senior medical consultant for AskMyGyn.com. http://www.askmygyn.com
"Of course I'm happy that we can provide people with reliable information, but I'm concerned that these women may not have access to real healthcare providers."
Indeed, in the Middle East, reluctance evidenced by women needing medical care has resulted in deadly consequences.


Breast cancer is the No. 1 killer of women in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, with large numbers dying because they don't seek medical treatment in time.
In Saudi Arabia, upwards of 70 percent of breast cancer cases are not reported until they are at a very late stage, compared with 30 percent or less in the U.S., according to statistics cited by MSNBC.
A 1999 survey in Egypt found perceptions women held about their own health was the single most important factor governing their utilization of health services. One-half of the women participating in the study reported having reproductive tract infections, 56 percent evidenced genital prolapse and 63 percent were anemic. But the majority did not seek health services, and most of the women stated they saw their conditions as normal.
A more recent study in Egypt found most women surveyed reported at least one gynecological condition but said as long as they were able to have children and do their daily work, they felt they did not need care. The study, by the Egyptian Social Science and Medicine Institute, cited lack of dialogue about gynecological issues between women and their husbands.
According to an article last May in the Middle East Journal of Family Medicine, dismal rates of death to breast cancer in Jordan are primarily due to late diagnosis.
When women do seek medical care, there have been reported instances in which their husbands pulled them from diagnostic tests because female technicians or doctors were not available.
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