A Saudi woman revealed details of her exposure to a medical error, during a failed “liposuction” operation, which caused her permanent disability.
The Saudi girl, Ibtisam, said that she went to a private hospital to perform a “abdominal and back suction” operation in 2020, noting that she “suffered from complications following the operation.”
And she confirmed, during an intervention with a program on the “Gulf Rotana” channel, that an Arab doctor residing in the Kingdom told her that these complications were normal, and then it turned out that they were burns that resulted from the use of the suction device.
I was admitted to the hospital for liposuction; She left with serious health complications.
The victim of the medical error tells Yahla the details of her painful story, and her refusal to bargain with the hospital in order to concede 100,000 riyals. #oh _ program _ welcome #Gulf _ Rotana pic.twitter.com/MQ8NX3MDiq– YaHala program (@YaHalaShow) December 25, 2022
According to her statement, she was “referred to a Saudi consultant, in the same clinic, to examine the entire abdominal area and write a report in the presence of a hospital official.”
And she continued, “I was transferred to another Arab resident doctor to correct the deformities in the skin, and to perform sessions to improve the color of the skin following it turned black,” and at that time the doctor who performed the operation left, she said.
She revealed that she had “filed a complaint with the Saudi Ministry of Health,” and was summoned by medical officials to take her “statement regarding what happened,” before she was informed that “the private clinic did not respond to them.”
The clinic officials contacted her to meet their lawyer, and offered her 100,000 riyals to waive the complaint, but she “refused”.
Then the clinic’s lawyer told her, “Wait 4 or 5 years for the case’s procedures to end,” which means that she “will not get her rights,” as she put it.
Regarding the reasons for her refusal to drop the case, she says that she “visited a number of doctors, and they told her that the treatment would cost more than 100 thousand, in addition to that this deformity will not be removed permanently, which means that it is a “permanent disability.”
She revealed that the private clinic has not contacted her and has not responded to her attempts to communicate with them since she refused the “attorney’s offer.”
She revealed that she was trying to meet the judge in the Sharia Board, but he “refused and sent her a paper to wait her turn,” confirming that she “filed the case more than a year ago and there are no developments.”
And Saudi law criminalizes “medical negligence,” and Article No. (28) of the Penal Code states that “it is punishable by imprisonment for a period of 6 months, and a fine of 100,000 riyals, or by one of these two penalties, in several legal cases, according to the website.”legal advice”.
