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Gynaecologist gets 3-year jail for bid to abort pregnancy
An Iraqi woman gynaecologist was sentenced in absentia to three years in prison by the Court of First Instance on Wednesday for attempting to abort a pregnancy.
The 56-year-old defendant, who is at large, was ordered to be deported after serving her prison term. The verdict remains subject to appeal within 15 days at the Court of Appeal.
According to prosecution records, the accused administered a pill to the patient and when the latter did not have a miscarriage, she tried to conduct a caesarean operation on her. She stopped short of it as the hospital administration, where she worked, did not give her the necessary authorisation to do the operation. The case dates back to May 2010. The complainant, a 41-year-old Iraqi housewife, said during the investigation that she had many miscarriages in the past prior to the incident.
In September 2009, she visited the defendant for her pregnancy check-up. As of the third month of pregnancy she developed symptoms of fever, exhaustion, swelling and bleeding. The defendant used to give her medicine and reassure her that the foetus was healthy. After the sixth month, the complainant came to know from a specialised medical centre at the Healthcare City that the baby had many deformities.
She told the defendant and the latter put a pill inside her claiming that it was a pain-killer. But the complainant later understood that it was a pill for abortion. At another hospital, the complainant gave birth to an abnormal baby, with brain haemorrhage and swelling in all his body. He lived for about one hour and died.
A British woman doctor said that the defendant had given the complainant a pill to abort the seven-month-old pregnancy. “The defendant wanted to conduct a caesarean operation when the pill did not had any effects on the woman,” she said..
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