Manama: A Kuwaiti lawmaker has requested Health Minister Ali Al Obaidi to take action against anyone found guilty of facilitating the departure of an Egyptian doctor wanted in a medical investigation.

MP Mohammad Tana said the facilitators should be held responsible for helping the doctor “flee” Kuwait hours after the probe into the “suspicious” death of a patient was ordered.

Saud Al Azimi died last week in Al Jahra hospital amid reports that his death was due to a medical error.

As an investigation into the death was launched, four doctors were summoned while the fifth who was the last one to see the patient reportedly left the country on Sunday, boarding a plane home at Kuwait airport.

Medical sources told Kuwaiti daily Al Seyassah that the doctor did not need to apply for leave from his employers since he had his passport with him and did not hand it over to them as is customary.

The sources added that the doctor was on probation period and was not formally recruited by the ministry.

However, the interior ministry will contact the International Police (Interpol) to have him extradited to Kuwait to stand trial in case there is enough evidence against him in the patient’s death, the daily said, citing security sources.

The Kuwaiti doctors’ union said the minister should resign following “what seems to be the latest in a string of medical errors.”

“We offer our heartfelt condolences to the family of the deceased over this terrible death which we are not yet sure whether it was the result of a medical error or of side effects or other causes,” Husain Al Khabbaz, the head of the union, said. “However, we do stress that the responsibility of suspected deaths lies with the health minister who has been opposing the promulgation of 10 laws that protect both the patients and the medical teams,” he said, quoted by Kuwaiti daily Al Rai.

The union has referred the drafts of 10 laws to the parliament to help find solutions for the problems that make both the patients and the doctors suffer, he added.

“These laws have been in the drawers of the medical commission since February 2014 and the minister did not attend the meeting which would have allowed it to refer them to the parliament,” he said.