AMMAN — In a case unprecedented in
the Kingdom, a Jordan court has convicted a doctor of a misdemeanor causing
death, sentencing him to 60 hours of community service.
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The sentence is stipulated to take place at
the Health Ministry’s Amman Comprehensive Health Center, where the doctor is
required to carry out unpaid medical work for 60 hours, to be completed within
one year.
Case contextThe court issued the ruling after it was
proven that the wife of the complainant had been admitted to a hospital under
the supervision of the defendant, a gynecologist, for an operation on the
ovaries that involves an incision to the abdomen.
The next day, the defendant released the
patient from the hospital without performing an elimination process. The
patient’s condition then worsened, her stomach began to swell, and her
breathing became shallow, while a green substance began to excrete from the
area of the operation wound.
It was discovered that the doctor had mistakenly made a 3-cm intestinal perforation during the initial operation.
She was taken to the hospital again and her
vital signs were unstable as the level of creatinine in her blood was high. The
patient was given antibiotics and admitted again to the operation theater after
the doctor had been called.
Surgical errorsIt was discovered that the doctor had
mistakenly made a 3-cm intestinal perforation during the initial operation. The
doctor also observed that a large quantity of intestinal contents had leaked
into the abdominal cavity.
The patient was admitted to the recovery
room after the operation, and her blood pressure was found to be low, while her
vital signs were unstable. She was then transferred to another hospital and
placed on an artificial respiration machine, however, she soon passed away.
Reports by an expert and a technical
medical committee found that the cause of death was the result of the defendant’s
mistake in performing the first surgical operation without sufficient and
justified medical reasons or consulting a general surgeon, as well as a lack of
proper precautions while conducting the operation. The reports also indicated
that the hospital did not have an intensive care unit. All these errors are
considered contrary to medical norms and led to the death of the complainant’s
wife.
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