Botched surgery: Court upholds closure of clinichttp://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/crime/botched-surgery-court-upholds-closure-of-clinic-1.668784The Dubai Cassation Court on Sunday confirmed the judgment to close the clinic after upholding a two-month suspended imprisonment on a Lebanese cosmetic specialist [who managed the clinic] for partly being responsible for the death. The Lebanese woman was found guilty of aiding and abetting a French doctor [who performed the surgery].
Medical records said the kidneys and liver of the 24-year-old Belarusian, F.S., failed due to a bacterial contamination in her blood and she died after being given what prosecutors described as a "wrong injection".
She will also have to jointly pay [along with the Frenchman who is at large and was sentenced in absentia] Dh200,000 in blood money to F.S.'s family.
The cosmetic specialist had appealed the appeals ruling before the Cassation Court unlike the French doctor, who was sentenced in absentia and remains wanted by the local authorities.
The Public Prosecution charged the doctor with causing the accidental death of F.S. after injecting her with a gelatin substance in the muscles and tissues of her breast.
The Frenchman was accused of practicing medicine without obtaining a license from the health authorities.
"According to articles 99 and 100 of Federal Penal Code, the court granted the Lebanese woman a lenient sentence after considering her age, ethics and the case's circumstances.
This is the second death in Dubai,
that I am aware of this Year, due to malpractice in a Breast Augmentation operation. And two Year suspended sentences with AED 200,000 fines are hardly a deterrent are they?
Medical or Psychological reasons are another matter, but I STILL don’t understand, why on this God’s Earth would anyone in their right mind, wish to risk invasive surgery, purely for reasons of personal vanity? And particularly, in a country where there is very little evidence of Authoritarian Control of such an industry and so little respect for Human Life.