Majed Al-Nufaie

Okaz/Saudi Gazette

 

TAIF — Makkah Social Affairs has promised to investigate a physically and mentally disabled man’s death at King Faisal Medical Complex in response to requests from his family.



Makkah Social Affairs spokesman Ahmad Al-Ghamdi said they would form a committee with Taif Police and Taif Health Affairs to investigate Abdullah Al-Malki’s death but the medical complex has issued a report stating that he died from natural causes, a claim the family rejects.



Al-Ghamdi said: “The report stated the patient was suffering from low blood pressure and heart problems. He was, nevertheless, completely conscious and the necessary medical measures from electrocardiograms to resuscitation were carried out.”



Al-Ghamdi said the report stated Al-Malki was transferred by the rehabilitation center where the patient had been treated for 12 years to the complex’s emergency ward.



According to the report, the patient’s heart stopped during treatment and the doctors tried to resuscitate him for 25 minutes but to no avail.



Taif Health Affairs spokesman Siraj Al-Humaidan said the body has been transferred to forensics teams to determine the cause of death.



Al-Malki’s family maintains he died in suspicious circumstances and found him with bruising on his neck and face, traces of blood vomit and a bleeding eye when they saw his body in the complex.