Hospital managers wanting to ban bedside Gideon Bibles have been attacked by religious leaders who warned that sick people will be deprived of spiritual comfort when it is most needed. The ban, at the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, is intended to reduce levels of infectious superbugs such as MRSA on the grounds that the Bibles are hard to clean. They want all bedside areas in Queen’s Medical Centre and City Hospital kept tidy to stop deadly viruses breeding. Christian protesters said the holy texts pose a ‘minimal’ risk of infection and called for the plans to be scrapped. A spokeswoman for the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham said: ‘For many patients Bibles have been a source of comfort and support through uncertainty and illness. It is unsatisfactory that patients may now have to ask a nurse for a Bible’. Hospital officials are now consulting staff, patients and chaplains before bringing in the ban.

Pray: that a way is found for these Bibles to remain to support for patients without any health risk. (Jn.1:1)

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