Health Affairs has begun investigations into the death of a man in his sixties at Al-Sahm Hospital in Taif after he was believed to have been given the wrong medicine. The family of Salim Al-Rubai'i said he went to the hospital in the south of the Taif region and returned home with prescription medicine prior to a rapid deterioration in his condition. Al-Rubai'i was then taken to a health clinic in Rubai' where he passed away shortly after arriving and complaining of difficulties breathing. The spokesman for Taif Health Affairs said that the investigation's conclusions would be passed on to the Health Commission. In Asir, meanwhile, the regional Emir Prince Faisal Bin Khaled has ordered Health Affairs to bar a female Egyptian doctor from leaving the country after she prescribed medicine believed to have caused a deterioration in the health of an eight-year-old boy. The father of the boy, who was forced to remain absent from school for five weeks due to illness, presented a formal complaint to Health Affairs accusing the doctor in Khamis Mushayt of misdiagnosing his son's illness. “I took my son to a doctor of traditional medicine after he started getting worse and within a few days he made a full recovery, making me question the diagnosis of the first doctor and her failure to prescribe the correct medicine,” he said.
