The Fujairah Appeals Court heard an administrative case filed by a Gulf employee against a government psychiatric and mental hospital for issuing a report stating that he was suffering from a chronic mental illness, which caused his termination of services.
The first instance court ruled in support of the report of the medical committee formed before it, which stated that the procedures followed by the defendant's hospital conform to the recognized medical standards, and there is no medical error in it, and that the plaintiff suffers from a chronic mental illness.
In detail, a Gulf employee filed an administrative suit against a government hospital specializing in mental and mental illness.
He told the court that his employer issued a decision to end his services, and rejected his grievance against this decision, which was based on a medical report attributed to a government hospital specializing in mental and mental illnesses, indicating that he was forced, through one of his work managers, to go to this hospital to reveal his mental health.
He pointed out that what forced him to go in order to reveal his psychological health is a joke that was made by his colleagues who tried to strip him of his clothes out of laughter, and when he went to complain about them and filed a complaint against them with his direct manager, he obliged him to go to an appointment in a government hospital, to make sure his health Mental.
He said, “The Hospital’s KDE report was shocking to him, as he was diagnosed with a chronic mental illness that prevented him from performing his job, which led to the termination of his services from his work, caused his life to be destroyed, and his family was rejected by society”, stressing that if He was already sick with schizophrenia when he knocked all the doors in order to recover his right and prove that he was not injured.
He pointed out that he went to more than one government and private hospital to make sure that he suffers from a chronic mental illness, but that all statements, examinations and reports have proven his psychological and mental health, and that he does not complain of any mental illness.
The Court of First Instance appointed the Medical Liability Committee, and in its report, it was stated that the claimant entered into frequent periods from 2014 to 2017 the hospital that claims the invalidity of his reports, explaining that the medical reports issued by doctors and the nursing staff are recorded as having a chronic mental disorder, with consistent and related symptoms, and they have An indication of the persistence of the disease, with the absence of foresight on the part of the patient, and a relative improvement during treatment periods.
In response to the plaintiff’s description that his reputation was affected, and that he had become an outcast from his community, the Commission confirmed that the patient’s behavior was indicative of a delusional pathological misinterpretation of him at the present time, as he consistently performed litigation procedures, in which he accused parties of complicity in order to prove that he was a mental patient.
The Medical Committee considered that the procedures followed by the hospital on which he filed a suit are in accordance with the recognized medical standards, and there is no medical error in them.
In its ruling, the court upheld the report of the committee, but the employee appealed the ruling to the Appeal Court, which approved his request to form a tripartite committee of psychiatrists, whose task is to explain the validity of the reports issued by the hospital, and to inspect the employee to ensure the plaintiff’s ability to work or not.