The Makkah Health Affairs Department has formed a medical committee to investigate the death of a 32-year-old Egyptian woman following an abortion operation at a private hospital in Makkah last Wednesday. The husband of the woman has accused the hospital of a medical error that killed his wife. The health department has received the complaint and an investigation team has been sent to the hospital, a Makkah health official said. Abdu Abdul-Aal said that his wife was admitted to the hospital last Wednesday following a “vaginal breeding.” The hospital recommended an abortion operation to save the mother after fetal and cervical complications, Abdul-Aal said. “But after their abortion operation, the 18-week-old fetus was well-developed and moving,” he said. “It was left aside on a piece of cloth and claimed they would work to save her,” he said. The medical team took the mother to the operation room to do cervical removal, but the bleeding did not stop, he said. “Then they recommended a third operation to step the bleeding and asked me to bring blood of her type,” he added. The medical insurance company provided the hospital with the blood. When Abdul-Aal checked with the hospital on the condition of his wife, they told him she was fine. “But to my surprise, when I went to see her in her room, she was all in blood. Dead,” he said.
