Four Egyptian doctors, who worked in the Umm el-Massreen Hospital in Giza, were sentenced to one year in prison each, and ordered to pay LE10,000 in damages after they were convicted of causing the death of a female patient and “significantly violating the very basic ethics of the honourable medical profession,” judiciary sources at Imbaba Misdemeanour Court have said Sunday. The court found the doctors, who were arrested for failing to give the right medicine to a 24-year-old patient suffering from swine flu, guilty of violating Egyptian public health and medical laws. The doctors were formally indicted for negligence and failing to treat the patient, identified as Nura Hashim Mohamed, who died after receiving the wrong medication, the sources said. They have vigorously denied all the charges against them. Nura's family members have accused the doctors of refusing to treat her when she was admitted into Umm el-Massreen Hospital earlier in the year. The sources said that each doctor was ordered to pay LE10,000 to Nura's family .
