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Indian doctor cleared, other gets life term
Upholding the Criminal Court of First Instance’s verdict, the Dubai Court of Appeal, on Wednesday, cleared a 49-year-old Indian doctor, who along with a 50-year-old Austrian doctor, was accused of killing a quadriplegic patient in a local hospital.
The two faced premeditated murder charges of killing the patient by giving their orders to the medical team at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital not to revive him and or give him the necessary treatment when he suffered a heart attack, thereby wanting him to die.
While the Public Prosecution appealed the verdict of the lower court, it did not contest the ruling which sentenced, in absentia, the Austrian doctor, who is at large, to life imprisonment on the charge of premeditated murder.
The convicted Austrian doctor who was the head of the ICU at the government hospital, where the patient was being treated, managed to flee the country after getting a warrant from the court, and did not return.
In its verdict, the Criminal Court said the European doctor had issued instructions, from the beginning, not to revive the patient, he personally supervised removing the patient’s pacemaker, and raised the level of Morphine from 5 milligram to 10 milligram.
“The doctor also gave written and verbal instructions in this regard, which led to the death of the patient, therefore, the Indian doctor was not responsible. The European doctor, since he was the head of the ICU, had ordered not to revive the disabled patient, and not to provide him medicine in case he had a heart attack, he intentionally meant to kill him, and that appeared in his orders and actions”, the Public Prosecution said in its indictment sheet.
The convict had insisted on seeing his orders carried out, and got what he wanted, by all means, despite the protest of the medical staff, the Public Prosecution said. He used all possible means to kill the patient, by removing the apparatus attached to the patient including a device to monitor the oxygen and tubes for arteries and veins.
He also increased the level of Morphine and brought down the level of oxygen, less than required for the patients in Intensive care units, the charge sheet added..
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