Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN)– Al-Qassim Health Affairs issued a press release Thursday through its official account on the Twitter platform, regarding a number of people’s complaints regarding being blinded following being treated by a doctor in a private hospital in the Qassim region in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Al-Qassim Health indicated that it is following up on the matter, stressing in the statement: “Al-Qassim Health would like to clarify that its competent authority, following receiving the reports at the time and immediately, followed up the matter, verified it, and took all necessary legal measures.”
The complaint was also referred to the “Shari’a Health Board, which is concerned with examining medical errors and issuing appropriate decisions in accordance with the system of practicing health professions and the system of private health institutions.”
Al-Watan newspaper reported Thursday that an ophthalmologist blinded 6 of his patients, as a result of a fatal medical error in various cataract operations, and he is still practicing his profession in a private hospital in the Qassim region.
According to the same newspaper, all patients entered to perform the cataract procedure, which does not take half an hour to be performed in normal cases by specialists, but the patients’ stay in the operating room for hours made them feel suspicious that the result would be loss of vision and damage to the cornea following the completion of the procedure .
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