Retired Nurse Charged for Unauthorized Eye Surgery Leaving Patient Blind in Rabat Hospital

The nurse and his two accomplices are being prosecuted in court. The main defendant is accused of intentional harm resulting in permanent disability, usurpation of a function regulated by law and corruption. In addition to the same charges, his two accomplices are also being prosecuted for complicity, reports Assabah.

In preventive detention at the Tamesna prison, the three accused will be brought before the criminal chamber of the court of first instance of Rabat on January 15. The defendants were apprehended after the patient filed a complaint with the Rabat police, in which he recounts how he met one of the nurse’s accomplices who offered him the services of the latter to operate on him as soon as possible.

The security guard later informed the patient that a "surgeon" would operate on him on a date and place he communicated to him. Thus, as agreed, the patient paid the amount demanded by the nurse and his accomplices before being operated on. The three accused then gave him a prescription and made an appointment with him in a month to operate on the second eye. But before this deadline, the patient realized that he had lost his sight.