Two doctors fined hefty amounts for causing death of Kuwaiti man

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KUWAIT CITY, March 27: The Court of Appeals ruled to oblige the Ministry of Health and two doctors to pay compensation worth KD 111,000 to the family members of Falah Al-Sawagh for the serious medical errors that led to his death. This ruling was based on a final ruling issued by the Court of Cassation that convicted the two doctors. Earlier, the Court of Cassation had sentenced the two doctors to one-year imprisonment each, bailable by KD 5,000, after convicting them of unintentionally killing former MP Falah Al-Sawagh during an operation in the hospital, according to the complaint lodged by Lawyer Dr. Yousef Al- Harbash.

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It is noteworthy that the report issued by the joint committee of the Ministry of Health, Forensic Medicine, and the Faculty of Medicine at Kuwait University assigned by the court in the manslaughter case of Al-Sawagh confirmed that he had died as a result of medical errors. It was proven that there was bacterial blood poisoning resulting from the operation that was performed on him.
Al-Sawagh’s family members had filed the lawsuit, accusing three doctors working at the Saud Al-Babtain Center for Burns and Plastic Surgery, one of whom was responsible for causing Al-Sawagh’s death as a result of a medical error. They demanded that the doctors and the Ministry of Health be obligated in solidarity to pay temporary compensation worth KD 5,001 to them after they submitted papers proving that the doctors had committed a medical error that led to Al-Sawagh’s death.

By Jaber Al-Hamoud
Al-Seyassah/Arab Times Staff

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