The Shariah Medical Committee here chaired by Judge Abdul Rahman Al-Huseini has issued a verdict to cancel the contract of a doctor in one of the city's private hospitals and deport him after the payment of SR50,000 as bloodmoney for the death of a female university graduate two years ago. The committee also recommended that no further contract be signed with him and imposed several fines on the hospital according to health regulations. Furthermore, the Radiology Department and the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital will be closed down for violating health regulations. During investigations, the committee confirmed that the doctor had claimed that he was a consultant internist and had posted a sign outside his office to that effect. However, investigations into the causes of the female patient's death uncovered that the doctor was in fact a consultant in tropical diseases. The committee held several meetings under the chairmanship of Judge Abdul Rahman Al-Huseini, a judge in the General Court in Jeddah, with a number of specialist doctors as members in order to look into the public and private rights of those related to the deceased. The female patient, who was suffering from a high temperature due to inflammation of the tonsils, died after being given several injections of antibiotics.
