On Sunday, Egypt’s prosecutors issued a brief statement on the Quesna hospital incident in Menoufia governorate north of Cairo.
The episode of the attack on nursing staff in a government hospital has caused a lot of controversy, especially after the main defendant’s lawyer denied that one of the beaten nurses had miscarried, which was confirmed by the head nurse in previous statements.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office has revealed that it received a communication on the first of this December from nurses, workers and security personnel at Quesna Central Hospital, of assaulting and injuring a patient – in the gynecology ward – on them, following a litigation on treatment In the communication filed against him, the Public Prosecutor’s Office had been instructed to investigate the facts attributed to the other defendants.
The prosecutor’s office moved to the hospital, examined it and determined that some of its medical equipment, furniture and monitoring equipment recording devices had been damaged.
The prosecution heard statements by the hospital’s security director and two security officers regarding the quarrel in the gynecology department between the complaining patient’s family and the nursing staff, and the resulting injuries to the nurses and security personnel , and the damages that the prosecutor examined.
The prosecutor also heard testimony from the surveillance camera officer, who said that there was a backup copy of the camera recordings that monitored the incident.
The prosecutor has decided to summon the hospital director and the rest of the parties involved in the incident to hear their statements and the investigation is nearing completion.
scenario of what happened
Activists on social media said the attacker, who was reportedly a pilot officer, had gone to hospital in Quesna to treat his pregnant wife, who was bleeding.
Due to “an almost permanent shortage of medical personnel in government hospitals”, nurses reportedly asked the officer to wait a while as the doctor on duty was busy performing an operation.
And it seems that, according to some of these accounts, it made that man angry, and he considered that negligence and that he mainly came to that hospital because it was closest to him and that he presented in an emergency condition .
As a result, an assault on female nursing staff resulted in five nurses and three female workers being injured with injuries and fractures, and one pregnant nurse miscarried.
Some activists have called for tougher penalties to be imposed on the attackers, especially as one of the attackers appeared hitting a nurse with a “kerbage” whip, which prompted one of them to wonder: “Are we still living in the time of the pashas?” ?”
On Sunday the defendant’s defender denied that one of the beaten nurses had miscarried, as confirmed by the nurse captain in previous statements.
The Nursing Syndicate, Kawthar Mahmoud, had claimed in previous statements, reported by “Masrawy”, that one of the nurses had suffered a miscarriage as a result of the beatings.
Kawthar said, “According to the nursing certificate in the hospital, the women accompanying the case started threatening the hospital nursing staff and threatened to beat them, after which two men entered the women’s ward and beat all the nurses present in the ward.” her miscarriage.
In the latest developments, the defendant’s lawyer, Abd al-Hamid al-Sheikh explained that what has been circulating on social media platforms regarding the assault incident is completely different from reality, as he said.
The Al-Shorouk newspaper quoted the Sheikh’s words to a television program in which he said that the accused was not accompanied by his pregnant wife when the latter went to the emergency room, “as she had been bleeding for 3 hours without anyone helping her or take any treatment,” as he said.
And he continued in his interview with the Al-Hadath Al-Youm channel: “The sister-in-law sent 3 distress calls via Facebook, complaining of lack of interest”.
The lawyer stressed that the husband saw his sister’s cries for help, so he immediately went to the hospital, adding: “He found his family detained in the obstetrics and gynecology department of the hospital, and the security forces prevented them from leaving to help their daughter and save what could be saved.”
She stressed that “the accused’s mother was beaten if she was unjustly imprisoned and detained”, continuing: “The husband stood up for his family, and was not present from the beginning, but the public accused him of assaulting personal physician.”
She said the abortion of one of the nurses while pregnant was “fake news”, commenting: “We want to put things right and give everyone their rights.”
And he stressed that his client’s wife had aborted the fetus due to “gross medical negligence”, adding: “My client lost his child, who he had been expecting for two years. Who will compensate him for his loss. The Ministry of Health o from another party?”
Statement from the Armed Forces
And the Egyptian military announced on Saturday that it was “closely following” the attack on nursing staff and female workers at Quesna hospital.
Military spokesman Colonel Gharib Abdel Hafez said in a statement posted on his Facebook page that “the military is closely following what has been raised on social media regarding the incident at Quesna Central Hospital.”
The statement adds that the armed forces affirm “their full respect for the principle of the rule of law and invite everyone to investigate with precision and to wait for the completion of the investigations”.
