AMMAN — The Amman Magistrates Court
granted the Public Prosecution one week to review evidence presented by defense
lawyers for the defendants charged in the accidental death of ten COVID-19
patients at a hospital in Salt last March after oxygen at the hospital ran out,
Al Ghad News reported.
اضافة اعلان
The court convened Thursday its thirty-fifth
public hearing in the case, headed by Judge Dr. Uday Al-Fraihat, during which
defense lawyers presented their evidence in the case. The court decided to grant
the public prosecution a week to determine its position on the evidence.
The court had given the defendants in the
case 14 days to submit their evidence to the court, which is the period
stipulated by law, and before that they submitted their defense statements.
During the previous hearings, the court finished
listening 66 prosecution witnesses in the case, among them the former Minister
of Health, Dr. Nazir Obeidat, and a number of experts and forensic doctors.
The Public Prosecution charged all of the
defendants with causing death of all ten victims. The defendants protested
their innocence during the first hearing in the case in April.
On March 14 this year, oxygen ran out
in the COVID-19 patients’ ward at Salt Government Hospital which resulted in
the death of ten Jordanian citizens.
The Amman
Criminal Court began hearing the case at the beginning of last April, and the
case is ongoing.
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