Saudi Gazette report JEDDAH — The Jeddah Health Directorate has set up a committee to investigate the death of a woman who passed away soon after giving birth at a private clinic in the city, local media reports said. The directorate has also put a travel ban on the doctor who treated the woman at the clinic. The case will be referred to the medical forensics committee in Jeddah after investigations are completed. The patient was transferred from the private clinic to King Abdulaziz Hospital in an unequipped ambulance and was apparently not given blood transfusions or medicines to stop the bleeding, sources were quoted as saying in the media “The same doctor had treated my wife previously,” the victim's husband said. However, this time the doctor was treating four other cases and as such did not give his wife the attention that is required, he claimed. “When I requested the doctor to transfer her to a nearby hospital, she refused saying that the clinic's ambulance had broken down,” the husband said. He sought the help of the Red Crescent to transport his wife to King Abdulaziz Hospital, where the doctors tried to stop the bleeding by performing a hysterectomy, but she died an hour later.
