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Bahrain: Doctor jailed for twins’ death gets reduced prison term

A doctor who received three years in jail on manslaughter charges for causing medical errors and leading to the deaths of a twin, has had his jail term reduced to a year on appeal.

The Lower Criminal Court has sentenced the doctor to three years in prison and two lady doctors to one year in jail for finding them guilty of the deaths of the twin babies. The court has acquitted a nurse in the same case.

Case documents reveal that a man had lodged a complaint indicating that the Salmaniya Medical Complex had proclaimed his twin babies dead and handed them over to him. However, the twins were found to be alive at the time of their burial, so he rushed them back to SMC, who told him that one of them was still alive, and transferred her to the recovery room where she died later.

The Public Prosecution launched an investigation into the case, and reviewed the report of the technical committee to determine the cause of the babies’ death, set up by the National Health Regulatory Authority (NHRA). It also reviewed the report of the forensic doctor, which found out that the twins were born prematurely, and could partially breathe, which would require their urgent transfer to the intensive care unit as long as they were alive. The forensic report concluded that the twins’ life could have been saved if transferred to the intensive care unit immediately.

The Public Prosecution leveled the charges against the suspects based on the reports of the NHRA’s committee and the forensic expert.

In yesterday’s verdict, the High Court of Appeal rejected the challenges made against the original judgment by the two others. They will now have spent a year in jail for the crime. The Chief Prosecutor for Ministries and Public Entities said the High Court of Appeal is amending the jail terms awarded to one of the subjects.

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The Daily Tribune

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