Rejection of a compensation claim of 200 thousand dirhams filed by a woman against a hospital

The Abu Dhabi Court for Family and Civil and Administrative Claims rejected a compensation claim filed by a woman against a hospital and two doctors, in which she demanded that they pay her 200,000 dirhams in compensation for the medical error she suffered during her surgery. It is only accepted after resorting to and submitting to the medical responsibility committees.

The details of the case refer to a woman filing a compensation suit against a hospital and two doctors, in which she demanded that they jointly pay her an amount of 200,000 dirhams for the material and moral damage she sustained as a result of the defendants’ mistake and obligating them to pay fees, expenses and attorney’s fees, noting that she was suffering from a small cyst below The abdomen, so she reviewed the first defendant, and he transferred it to the second defendant, and the latter informed her, after the examination, that she needed to remove it and told her that the medical drugs were useless.

The operation was performed, and after that the operation site did not heal, and she visited the second defendant by phone and every time he told her that the wound would heal, and after her condition worsened, she went to the first defendant and referred her to the third defendant, who decided to perform another operation and after doing so the wound did not heal either, so she reviewed him once Another made a new stitch, but the wound did not heal, forcing her to travel outside the country for treatment, which cost her approximately 200 thousand dirhams. The plaintiff was not brought before the committee.

For its part, the court made it clear in the merits of its ruling that the initial plea by the defendants not to accept the case for filing it in a way other than the way prescribed by law, is consistent with the legal decision that claims for compensation filed because of medical liability are not accepted until after resorting and presenting it to the medical liability committees, noting that That the papers were devoid of what indicated that the plaintiff had been presented to the Medical Liability Committee, and then the court ruled that the lawsuit would not be accepted for filing in a manner other than the method prescribed by law, and the court ruled that the lawsuit would not be accepted for filing in a manner other than the method established by law, with obligating the plaintiff to pay expenses and fees.

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