Relatives of students at a Saudi primary boys school conveyed their protest to health authorities for allowing female nurses into the school to vaccinate students, a newspaper in the conservative Gulf country said on Tuesday.
Three female nurses were sent to the school east of the central town of Laith as part of a nation-wide inoculation campaign against measles and other contagious diseases, the Arabic language daily Sabq said.
“Many parents of the students expressed resentment at the dispatch of female nurses to a school that has nearly 130 boys,” it said.
“They said this was against existing rules which prohibit the entry of females into boys schools for any reason.”
The paper said it had contacted many health officials but all of them refused to comment.