Doctor’s ‘blunders’ leave 6 people blind

An eye doctor’s blunders during cataract operations caused six patients to lose their sight.

Al Watan newspaper said it has got documents proving that the unnamed doctor had made “grave” mistakes in the operations at a private hospital in Saudi Arabia’s central region of Al Qassim, causing some patients to suffer loss of sight and damage to the cornea.

The kingdom’s Sharia health authority has issued compensation rulings in favour of some of the harmed patients, the paper added.

Authorities said in a statement it had taken the necessary legal procedures and referred related complaints to the Sharia health authority in charge of looking into medical blunders.