AMMAN — Amman’s Court of First Instance
awarded a medical compensation of JD400,000 to a man who was left with severe
brain damage and paralysis following a nasal septum deviation surgery, Ammon
News reported.
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It is the first
time that a Jordanian court awards such a large sum to a victim of medical
error, underscoring that the Jordanian judiciary will be looking more closely on such cases,
possibly clamping down on perpetrators and the medical institutions employing
them.
The decision was issued by a judicial body
specialized in medical errors at the Amman Court of First Instance, headed by
Judge Andab Ibrahim Al-Hamoud.
The court said the hospital where the unidentified
man underwent the procedure 13 years ago was guilty of neglect and had
committed a medical error, which left the patient paralyzed in the upper and
lower limbs. It said he needed constant and lifelong medical care.
To that end, the court obliged the hospital to pay
the patient JD400,000 with 9 percent in legal interest.
The court said that it found that the patient had
received a substantial amount of sedation from an unlicensed anesthesiologist
working at the hospital, and that he was left in the ICU without adequate
attention to his case.
Yusra Abdelhadi, head of the National Association
for Therapeutic Safety (Salamtak), said the court’s ruling ”will not compensate
the young man for what he had lost, but the rule of law and justice must be
served”.
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