Dubai-based plastic surgeon liable for medical malpractice

Dubai: A court has found a medical centre and its plastic surgeon liable for a medical malpractice which left an Arab woman with a permanent disfigurement in her abdomen following a botched liposuction.

The Dubai Civil Court ordered the Dubai-based centre and its British doctor to pay the Arab woman Dh60,000 in civil compensation for the moral, emotional, medical and financial damages she incurred following the failed liposuction.

The woman's advocate in the civil case Mohammad Al Shaiba of Al Bahr Advocates and Legal Consultants, told Gulf News following Monday's ruling: "We were seeking Dh500,000 in civil compensation... however, we will appeal the initial verdict and seek a higher compensation because my client sustained an inverted T-scar disfigurement and swelling in her abdomen. Doctors told her it's a permanent deformity."