| The brother of the Qatari man, who is being treated in a UK hospital after contracting an infection from the coronavirus, said that his brother’s condition was getting better now. “He is responding to treatment and the pneumonia has healed considerably,” he told local Arabic daily Arrayah. However, he criticised the lack of transparency at the Supreme Council of Health (SCH). “The SCH statement that the patient had been transferred from Hamad Hospital to a British hospital lacked clarity. It was the patient’s family who made all the arrangements to transfer him to Britain on a private aircraft at their own expense.” According to him, doctors at Hamad hospital failed in the diagnosis of the case. The brother explained that the patient began to feel short of breath and suffered different symptoms of severe flu a week after returning from a minor pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. “Yet, doctors at the Hamad hospital gave him some antibiotics and told him he would be okay. In time, his condition deteriorated and he had to be sent abroad for treatment.” He admitted that the patient was being treated now at the State’s expense. http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=533990&version=1&template_id=57&parent_id=56 |
