Death of patient following surgery; Bahrain rescinds murder charge against doctors

Bahrain: A court has quashed the case of two Bahraini doctors in connection with the death of a patient following surgery. Earlier, the lower court had sentenced him to 12 months in jail. Later, two indigenous doctors approached the apex court with an appeal in the case. Following this, new decisions were reached in the case. The court acquitted the two after finding that the cause of death of the patient was not the fault of the doctor.

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The case is scheduled to be heard on June 17, 2019. The surgery was performed at the Salmania Medical Complex. Indigenous woman in a coma after surgery. She died two months later on August 17. The prosecution alleges that the young woman died due to lack of post-operative care by doctors.

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The patient was removed from the hospital’s operating theater before the surgery was completed and the patient was fully recovered. The main allegation raised by the prosecution is that this was the main reason the patient died. The lawyer was also unable to establish that the doctors had made a mistake by giving the patient all the fingers that had been surgically removed. The court accepted this argument. That is how the court commuted their sentence. It is true that the patient had a lack of oxygen in his body but the cause of death has not yet been determined. It was in this situation that the doctors were acquitted. The court acquitted the other two doctors who were with him for lack of evidence