Egypt .. “Doctors” resolves the controversy over the fate of the doctor who caused the crisis of the artist, Yasmine Abdel Aziz

The member of the Medical Union in Egypt, Ibrahim El-Zayat, said that the Union has so far received no complaints of medical error in the case of the artist, Yasmine Abdel Aziz.

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He explained that the Union will open an investigation into the case with the doctor who caused it and hold him responsible, if he deteriorates the patient’s condition, stressing that there is confusion between the error medical and medical complications that may arise from any patient if they undergo surgery or the like, and the physician has no involvement therein.

Al-Zayat added that medical negligence has a clear definition, and it means the occurrence of a problem not listed in the books and references, such as performing medical surgery at a medical facility that is not qualified to receive treatment. such surgeries, or the doctor himself. is not qualified and not specialized, or the doctor is slow to respond when a problem arises Rapid intervention to save the situation.

As for medical complications, which can happen to the doctor, he explained that these are problems that arise after surgical interventions in different proportions and the possibility of their occurrence, and the complications can reach death, in case of cancer and accidents, pointing out that in severe cases the patient’s family or the patient himself is signed An annotated statement in which the complications that occur routinely, stressing that this is something that occurs in all hospitals in the world, and it is a complication known to all doctors, and its percentages are very low, amounting to 1% during surgery, indicating that if it happens at a rate higher than that, it requires a legal responsibility

And about the sanction that a doctor can incur if he causes a medical error, as happened in the case of Yasmine Abdel Aziz, he explained that there are ways of reporting to the General Union and to the Public Prosecutor’s Office which governs the Penal Code, and that the Union itself has a Professional Ethics Commission, a Complaints Commission and a Disciplinary Commission, which includes an adviser from the Council of State, who investigates the complaint received and determines the percentage of medical error and negligence, specifying that the penalties range from warning to temporary suspension of work or withdrawal of the license to practice the profession for small and large periods, and can achieve final expungement from union records if the error is serious.

Source: house

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