The husband of Tabuk schoolteacher Haifa Al-Balawi who died on Monday from swine flu has made an official complaint accusing medics of negligence and school authorities of failing to take sufficient precautions. According to her husband Saleh, Al-Balawi first showed symptoms of the illness after a student at her school became infected, when she developed a sore throat and a high temperature. “We went to a nearby hospital and they said that it was just normal inflammation of the throat that would soon go away,” Saleh Al-Balawi said. “When it got worse, however, we went to King Khalid Hospital, but tests produced contradictory statements, with each doctor writing a different prescription.” “One of the doctors wrote a prescription for medicine which I had to go all the way to Jeddah to find,” he said. “Unfortunately, things took their course quicker than they should because of the doctors' failure to address the issue seriously.” Al-Balawi's wife was later placed in intensive care where she subsequently died.
