Saudi Gazette report DAMMAM — Nabeel Al-Khater's joy on being blessed with his first baby boy turned into tragedy when his 32-year-old wife died at the Maternity and Children's Hospital in Dammam Wednesday afternoon. The tragic blow was compounded by the loss of his baby boy, who died in the ICU Thursday. Al-Khater said he intends to lodge a complaint against the hospital with the Directorate of Health Affairs following the condolence period in order to ascertain what really happened. He told Alsharq newspaper he did not get any explanation — neither from the doctors nor the nurses who supervised her condition — for his wife's death. Al-Khater brought his wife Hanan Abduljabbar Al-Marrar to the hospital late Tuesday night. He left her there as men are allowed to stay in the wards only during visiting hours. He said he received a quick telephone call from the hospital asking him to come and sign an approval to conduct a hysterectomy to remove his wife's womb as she suffered from acute bleeding. He added that he signed the papers when they stressed that the operation was necessary to save her life. He said he waited anxiously in the waiting room for any news. After a while, he was surprised to hear the news of his wife's death from a female nurse. When he asked about the cause of her death, he was not given any reply. “They did not give me the chance to speak,” he said. On the next day (Thursday), he was surprised to receive a message through one of his relatives saying his wife was neglected in the delivery room due to a quarrel between the doctors supervising her case. The message added that they tried to suck out the infant from the womb, but part of the womb came out with the baby hence causing her to suffer from acute bleeding that could not be stopped. It further said they conducted an operation to remove the womb. During this procedure, the heart stopped and she died. The message was circulated from one person to the other. Amid all this confusion, Al-Khater has vowed to seek an answer. The spokesman for the Directorate of Health Affairs in the Eastern Province Khaled Al-Ossaimi said the cause of death was a clot in the amniotic fluid and resulting complications. This caused a clot in the lungs. The spokesman said there was consensus among experienced consultants about the procedures being followed to save the female patient's life.
