She spent them with 200,000 dirhams instead of 500,000

The "appeal" reduces compensation for a married couple who lost their fetus due to a medical error

A civil appeals court in Ras Al Khaimah ruled to reduce the compensation for a woman and her husband (two Arabs), who lost their fetus as a result of a medical error committed by a doctor in a private hospital, and the court amended the amount from 500 thousand to 200 thousand dirhams, and the court found that there was an exaggeration in the ruling for compensation, and obligated the doctor to 150 One thousand dirhams moral compensation for the wife, and the hospital required 50 thousand dirhams moral compensation for the husband for the damages he suffered.

The court of first instance obliged the two defendants, the doctor and the hospital, to pay 350 thousand dirhams, in solidarity between them in compensation for the wife, and 150 thousand dirhams in moral compensation for the husband, and the judgment was not accepted by the doctor and the hospital, and they appealed the judgment, and demanded that the case not be accepted, because it was not presented to the liability committees Medical.

The ruling was also not accepted by the woman and her husband, and they demanded to amend the first degree judgment, and to oblige the appellant to pay them compulsory compensation for all material, moral and moral damages that they suffered as a result of the death of their fetus, as a result of the appellant’s fault, and obligating them to pay fees, expenses and attorney fees.

The appeals court issued a statement rejecting the obituary presented by the appellant regarding the first instance court judging 150,000 dirhams in moral compensation for the husband, and it considered that he did not request the ruling for himself any compensation, but his request was limited to supporting what his wife requested and the ruling for compensation in her favor, pointing out that the obituary in Not locality, and the court rejects it

She clarified that the obituary to invalidate the report of the Medical Liability Committee because it was not signed by all the members of the committee, which defects it with a procedural defect that brings it to the point of absence. The quorum will be valid except in the presence of two thirds of the members, and the opinion of the committee is issued by the majority of its members present.

She added that the obituary for the appealed ruling overestimating the compensation for the benefit of the spouses is correct, and the court considers that the appropriate compensation for the compensation for the damages suffered by the wife is 150 thousand dirhams, and the husband assesses a compulsory compensation for the damages he suffered in the amount of 50 thousand dirhams, and it shall rule to reject the appeal of the two spouses and bind them Including fees and attorneys' fees, amending the appealed judgment, obligating the doctor to pay the wife 150,000 dirhams, and for the hospital to pay 50,000 dirhams to the husband.

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