One of the two Egyptian doctors recently sentenced to jail terms and lashes had illicit relations with a number of women after drugging them, while the other gave his sponsor's wife medication that caused her to experience hallucinations and delirium for five years, a Health Affairs statement said Sunday. Details of the crimes of Dr. Shawqi Abd Rabboh Ibrahim and Dr. Raouf Amin Muhammad Al-Arabi who were sentenced to 20 years in prison and lashes, and 15 years' prison and lashes respectively by the District Court of Jeddah on Nov. 14, 2007, were revealed in the statement released by the Directorate of Health Affairs in Makkah. Dr. Ibrahim had illicit relations with the women he injected with narcotic pharmaceuticals, the statement said. It said the two doctors' crimes included theft and trafficking of narcotic pharmaceutical products. The jail sentences and lashes for stealing, possessing and trafficking narcotic pharmaceuticals were in accordance with Articles 213 and 215 of the Penal Measures Regulation, the statement said, which were upheld by the Court of Cassation on March 18. It said the Administrative Investigation Department received information that Dr. Ibrahim was illegally trading in pharmaceuticals and injecting them into female patients while working at Al-Ansar Hospital in Jeddah. He was arrested by the Department on Oct. 21, 2006, accused of several crimes including bringing 950 ampoules of dormicom, 420 ampoules of nalorphine, 36 ampoules of dormicom and a quantity of nalorphine into the Kingdom with the intention of selling them. He was also charged with bringing in with the intention of trafficking 164 ampoules of dormicom, stealing 10 ampoules of dormicom from Al-Ansar Hospital and illegally obtaining quantities of ketamene and another narcotic medication in order to sell them. Dr. Ibrahim further possessed two ampoules of dormicom and four syringes containing the drug with the intention of selling them, plus large numbers of syringes and pharmaceutical products to be used in trafficking. Additionally, Dr. Ibrahim purchased 100 ampoules of dormicom from Dr. Al-Arabi with the intention to selling, and he also sold four ampoules of dormicom to Dr. Al-Arabi. Dr. Al-Arabi was arrested on April 14, 2007, and investigations led to him being accused of several crimes including bringing dormicom into the Kingdom with the intention to sell, providing cover for narcotics dealers, selling 100 ampoules of dormicom to Dr. Ibrahim, purchasing four ampoules of dormicom and selling them, and of repeatedly injecting his sponsor's wife with dormicom during the period between 2002 and 2007. The Health Affairs statement noted that the men's status as doctors signified full awareness of the seriousness of their acts and scant regard for the honor and ethics of their profession.
