A Dubai civil court has ordered a private hospital and four of its doctors to pay Dh2 million in compensation to the husband and two children of a Gulf woman who died during childbirth, after finding they committed a gross medical error that led directly to her death.
The ruling follows a final criminal judgment that convicted the four doctors of gross medical negligence, fined each Dh50,000 and ordered them to pay Islamic blood money to the deceased woman’s heirs. The civil court said it was bound by the criminal ruling on the existence and attribution of medical error.