Protracted process forces expat to drop medical error case

JEDDAH – Expatriate Fareed Al-Bakri never thought that filing a medical error case before the Shariah Medical Commission would be this difficult or could take so long. Neither did he think that the lengthy procedures would force him to drop his case against the hospital that botched a blood transfusion that led to the death of his wife. Unfortunately, this was exactly what Fareed had to do.In an interview with Al-Watan Arabic daily, Al-Bakri said that the commission’s drawn-out procedures made him