By Mohammad Al-Kadoumi
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
JAZAN — The Health Affairs in Jazan forwarded the case of Mansour Makrashi, a newborn whose hand was amputated due to a medical error to the Medical Shariah Committee.
Jazan Health Affairs spokesman Nabil Ghawi said a father of the newborn filed a complaint against Abu Areesh General Hospital for amputating his newborn son's hand as a result of a mistake by the medical team who treated him.
The father insisted that people responsible for his son's suffering must face the consequences and he must be compensated.
Abdulaziz Makrashi, the father, claimed that Jazan Health Affairs admitted that his son's hand had to be amputated as a result of a medical error.
"The Ministry of Health must take responsibility for the medical error and compensate for my son's loss. The ministry should implant a prosthetic hand to my son who is barely a month old. The ministry must give him a prosthetic hand even if it required for him to be treated abroad," said Makrashi.
He also said the family was greatly traumatized as a result of the incident.
"My wife is going through a psychological fit because of what happened to our newborn child. My child was given a wrong injection, which caused the veins in his hand to swell. The doctors had the chance to treat my son but they delayed the treatment and my son's hand had to be amputated in order to save his life," said Makrashi.
