AMMAN — A judicial
panel at the Amman Magistrate's Court on Sunday sentenced four former directors
and an oxygen technician at the
New Salt Public Hospital to a three-year prison
term each after it found them guilty of 10 counts of involuntary manslaughter
over the death of 10 patients at the hospital earlier this year due to oxygen
supply outage, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
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The court also fined the
convicts an amount of JD3,575 each and acquitted eight other defendants in the
high-profile case which befell in March this year and sparked wide public
uproar. The convicts may challenge the verdicts against them before higher
courts, including the Court of Appeal and the Court of Cassation.
Court hearings in the case
stretched over 250 days, starting early April, and heard the testimony of 87
witnesses, Petra reported.
Those who were convicted on
Sunday were the former hospital director, his assistant for services and
distribution, the head of the medical gases group, the director of medical
devices, and an oxygen technician.
Balqa Governorate House
Representative Dina Al-Daoud, told
Jordan News that “the people believe in the
Kingdom’s justice system and in the court's decision” based on evidence
gathered. She said it was saddening to
learn about the charges issued, but that “this is the penalty for
administrative negligence”.
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