Суд Абу-Даби обратился к педиатру, который

In a case that dates back to 19 September 2003, South African professor Cyril Karabus is prosecuted before Abu Dhabi Criminal Court. The paediatrician is charged with giving a false medication report issued by Khalifa Hospital in which he incorrectly stated a girl with Leukaemia was given platelets. He is also charged with manslaughter by not giving the girl the required platelets at time which led to her death. At the time, Karabus run away from the UAE after the deterioration of the girl’s health and before her death. He also absconded from the hospital two weeks before the expiry date of his employment contract. He was tried in absentia and found guilty. The court punished him with three years in jail for issuing false report in addition toone year in jail and Dh 100,000 in blood money for the girl’s heirs. Now the Court is retrying him in accordance with the law that stipulates defendants convicted in absentia must be retried once arrested to provide them with opportunity of self-defence. Investigation at the time concluded that Karabus was hired as a visiting doctor between 21 September and 30 October 2002 by Sheikh Khalifa Hospital in Abu Dhabi. Sara, the three and half years old and whose paediatrician was in vacation at the time, was referred to him to supervise her case once he started his job at the Hospital. On 15 October, Sara had a brain haemorrhage because of not having the require blood platelets at the correct time. After urgent X-ray, it was decided to have emergency surgery to stop haemorrhage. Karabus did the surgery and told the child’s parents that she might not survive or she would have a permanent disability because of the brain damage. After surgery, the child was put in ICU and her condition continued to deteriorate till her death on 19 October. Despite his employment agreement expired on 30 October, Karabus left the country before the death of the girl. In the text of its judgment made on 24 April 2004, Abu Dhabi Criminal Court said the conviction was based on threeconsiderations. First, the forensic medicine report said the defendant paediatrician did not provide the child with the approved medical care. The report said the delay in giving her the required blood platelets had caused and accelerated the brain haemorrhagewhich in turn accelerated the deterioration of her condition till her death at the end. Second, the forensic criminal report confirmed that defendant had I fact changed the data of blood platelets test done for the child two weeks before the deterioration of her condition. The defendant, the report said, added the figure of “1” to the left of “8,000” to be “18,000” in the medication report of the child. The forensic criminal report stated that the “1” figure was added by the same person using the same pen but on a later time. The purpose was to state incorrectly that the child had taken the require platelets. Third, the lawsuit documents and papers confirmed that the documents in which falsifying was done belonged to Dr.Karabus.