The director of Health Affairs here has ordered the formation of a medical committee to look into the case of a brain-dead Saudi woman who developed serious complications after undergoing a Cesarean section operation. Gabrail Al-Gabi, official spokesman of Jizan Health Affairs, said in a statement that Alawyia Osman Iskandr, a 35-year-old Saudi woman, was rushed to the emergency department at King Fahd Hospital in Jizan last Wednesday at 8 P.M. suffering from labor pains. He added that she was examined by the emergency doctor and the specialist on duty who found that there might be problems with the birth. The woman was diabetic and her husband said that she had given birth four times by Cesarean section. “Therefore, she was rushed to the operation room to avoid excessive bleeding. Three consultants in gynecology and obstetrics besides the specialist on duty operated on her. The doctors succeeded in saving her and the baby and both of them were in good health. She was also given the necessary treatment for her diabetes, and everything was under control,” Al-Gabi said. He said that at 9 A.M. the very next day, she developed some serious complications and secondary bleeding, and as a result the doctors once again rushed her to the operating theater where they removed her womb as its failure to contract had caused profuse bleeding. Her husband said that he received a call from the hospital in the morning telling him to come to sign his consent for the second surgical operation. He said in less than 24 hours the doctors operated on her for the second time pointing out that when the medical team came out of the operation room he noticed that they were highly stressed and when he asked them why, they told him that his wife had bled profusely and they had been required to supply her with more than 50 bags of blood, after which she went into a coma. A few hours after the operation, he said the doctors told him that his wife had suffered several anginas, and thus she was brain dead. The aggrieved husband has appealed to the Minister of Health to intervene personally to punish the errant doctors.
