Woman ‘uses friend’s insurance card for child’s Dh188k therapy’

dubai — A 28-year-old Nepalese housewife allegedly misused the insurance card and Emirates ID of her friend’s child to get her own daughter admitted to a hospital, a Dubai court has heard. The defendant has been charged with fraud as she stood trial at the Court of First Instance.

Her friend, a 33-year-old Indian woman, is accused of aiding and abetting the fraud and misusing her daughter’s documents. During a Dubai Health Authority (DHA) probe, the friend admitted to helping the main defendant, but claimed she was “shocked” that the treatment costs reached Dh188,000. The case dates back to April 29 last year and was registered at Al Muraqqabat police station.

An administrative officer at the hospital said that the Nepalese woman reached the hospital with her daughter. “The daughter had fever and got admitted to the emergency section. It became clear later that the girl had leukaemia and needed chemotherapy. She took the sessions until July 2018.”

The administrative officer added that they learnt later from the insurance company that the first defendant used the insurance card and ID of the second defendant’s daughter.

The two women were summoned. The Indian woman confessed she had given the documents to the other woman “out of good will”. She said she wanted to help her friend as she was on a tourist visa with her daughter and had no insurance.

“She claimed before the legal affairs department that she had first given the defendant the insurance card and ID on April 29 but was not aware that the other woman copied them and used them later. She was shocked to learn that the treatment costs reached Dh188,000 and admitted that the girl was not her daughter,” the witness told the prosecutor.

An employee at the hospital said that the second accused went to the hospital on June 25, 2018, and claimed that the girl getting treatment there was not her daughter. The insurance company then stopped covering the treatment.”