‘Drunk’ dentist assaults paramedics tending to his unconscious girlfriend

A dentist who assaulted two paramedics tending to his girlfriend after she fainted at a club in Dubai was given a suspended, one-month jail sentence and fined Dh1,000.

On October 28, the South African man, 49, was at a club in Dubai Marina with his girlfriend when she went to the bathroom.

“Minutes after she went, a man came over and told me that she fainted,” the dentist said. “I rushed to the ladies’ room and started first aid until paramedics arrived.”

The man said paramedics took the girlfriend on a stretcher to an ambulance and refused to let him join them.

“Then I found myself taken to the police station but I didn’t know why, because I didn’t assault them nor did I insult them as they claim,” he said. “I have been living and working here for six years without committing any wrongdoing.

The Filipino paramedics told prosecutors that the accused followed them as they moved the patient and while they were trying to perform CPR on her.

“She was awake and doing well. I told him to stop but he was drunk and angry,” said one paramedic, 42.

He said the defendant hit him in the face then insulted him before he turned to his colleague and did the same.

“He kept saying he was a doctor and when we asked him to present an identification card he refused,” said the second paramedic, who called police.

When he appeared at Dubai Court of Misdemeanours, the dentist denied charges of assaulting and insulting public employees and drinking alcohol without a licence.