A senior Foreign Ministry official has today accused a British hospital of “negligence” in treating Egyptian student Mariam Adel Salam who died last Wednesday in the UK, Sada Al Balad newspaper reported.
“There is suspicion that the British hospital failed to take the required medical measures to treat her as soon as she was admitted to the hospital,” said Assistant Foreign Minister Consular Affairs and Egyptian Expatriates Khalid Rizaq.
Speaking to “8:00 am Morning”, aired on Egyptian dmc TV channel, he vowed to take legal action if “negligence” on the part of the hospital is proven.
“There are suspicions that the hospital failed to treat the sudent as soon as she was admitted after coming under attack,” he said, adding that a doctor did discharge her.
The Egyptian consulate is waiting for the medical reports from the British hospital before deciding the legal measures which will be taken for justice to be served.
The 18-year-old student died in the hospital while being treated for serious brain damage caused by an attack by 10 girls.
The engineering student based in Nottingham, was brutally beaten by 10 British women of African descent, which stirred condemnation by both the Egyptian Foreign Ministry and the British embassy in Cairo.
Mariam’s family are preparing to travel to the UK in order to fly her body home for burial.
In a statement to Egypt Today, lawyer Emad Abu Hussein said that Mariam “was in coma for three days after she underwent critical surgery in the brain to treat her deteriorated condition”.
He claimed that the hospital where she was admitted failed to treat her, adding that a doctor discharged her and sent her home despite severe cerebral haemorrhage.