A nurse burns a patient's stomach with a laser

The Abu Dhabi Court of Appeal upheld the ruling of the Court of First Instance requiring a medical center, a doctor, a nurse and an insurance company to pay a patient an amount of 170,000 dirhams in compensation for the material, psychological and moral damages that she suffered while receiving a laser treatment session to get rid of fats in the abdomen area, and she suffered burns In the skin it left a permanent disability.

The details of the case are due to a woman filing a lawsuit against a dermatology and cosmetic center and a doctor, in which she demanded that the two defendants pay her an amount of two million dirhams in compensation for the material, psychological and moral damages she suffered, and obligate them to pay the lawsuit’s fees and expenses and in return for attorneys ’fees, indicating that she went The center is for the treatment of fat in the abdominal area, and the doctor decided that the treatment will be with a device specialized in laser fat removal.

The plaintiff explained that she underwent the first treatment session without complications, and in the second session she felt severe pain during the operation of the device and told the nurse the "second entrance opponent" who was in charge of the device, noting that after the session ended it was found that there were burns on the skin of the abdomen in the areas that were treated with laser and she The medical doctor gave her creams and told her that the burns would disappear, but her condition got worse.

The plaintiff indicated that with the increase in pain, she tried to contact the doctor, but she did not respond to the matter that forced her to go to the hospital, as it was found that she had suffered first and second degree burns and had undergone surgery as a result of which the dead parts of the skin were removed in the abdominal area and that resulted in permanent skin disfigurement. The abdomen accounted for 5%.

She continued that she had issued a criminal case against the doctor, and a final ruling was issued against the doctor, which ordered her to be fined 100,000 dirhams, and that she paid 10 thousand dirhams in compensation for the benefit of the plaintiff for causing her mistake to compromise her integrity and that was due to her breach, negligence and failure to follow caution and caution imposed on her by the assets of her profession.

The attorney of the first and second defendants submitted a memorandum in which he argued that it is not permissible to consider the case for the previous decision in the criminal judgment that has become final, as the plaintiff was ordered to pay compensation and thus the plaintiff obtained compensation, and it is not permissible to combine compensation and compensation, and he demanded the introduction of three new opponents in the case «Contracting Insurance Company. With her, the Center is responsible for bearing compensation arising from the medical error, the nurse who undertook the treatment of the plaintiff, in addition to the hospital in which the plaintiff underwent surgery and was subjected to wrong medical treatment by emergency doctors in that hospital.

The court of first instance ordered the defendant to be obligated by the medical center, the medical center, and the first entry opponent, the “insurance company,” and the second entry opponent, the “nurse,” to pay the plaintiff jointly a complementary compensation of 170 thousand dirhams.

The Court of Appeal upheld the judgment and obligated each appellant

to pay the

expenses of his appeal.

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