75 Hospital in Hebron. The child was admitted to the hospital as a result of a scorpion bite. His family claimed that the hospital delayed in giving him the antidote needed in such a case until he died. The Ministry of Health stated in its response: “The child reached the hospital in poor condition, suffering from convulsions and asphyxia. Upon his arrival, all necessary treatment was given to him. He was given the antidote immediately after entering the hospital. But the delay in reaching the hospital is what led to worsening his condition and thus his death.” It is also noted that (11) complaints of the total complaints received by ICHR in 2010 were related to medical errors during delivery, such as the death of the mother or the fetus or causing harm to the mother or the fetus. Medical complaints were varied in 2010 in terms of the nature of negligence. Examples include: occurrence of medical error during an operation of removing blue water from the eye; cutting the baby's head during delivery; error during bladder surgery; death and errors during normal delivery or cesarean; errors during splinting of broken bones; medical negligence during dialysis and providing the patient with blood infected with hepatitis (C); death after chiropractic treatment; and other cases of medical negligence that led to severe risks and dangers. Despite ICHR’s correspondence with the Ministry of Health regarding the complaints mentioned above, it received (10) responses only. The Ministry of Health admitted only (2) by condemning the doctors’ behaviors. The inquiry commission recommended that the doctors be referred to the Council of Ethics/Medical Association to take the appropriate punishment in one case, and tolerance for the patients’ rights in the other case. The following are affidavits from some of the cases: Affidavit by Adham Kamel Tabanja, 58, a resident of Qattanah Village, Jerusalem The citizen’s father in question reported that “His son, Adham, 24, is accused of a criminal charge. On 12/06/2010, he was arrested with his brother Thaer in front of the shop in Biddo village. They were taken to the headquarters of the General Intelligence Service in Ramallah, an hour and a half after the shooting of a shopkeeper and injuring the shop owner in the leg. On 28/06/2010 at 12:00am, a member of the police who was in the hospital called him and told him that his son Adham “is in Ramallah Hospital, he is in a

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