Eyewitness News: SAMA seeks help for SA doc

Rahima Essop | 26 September 2012

CAPE TOWN - The South African Medical Association (SAMA) said on Wednesday day it was concerned that a Cape Town professor's rights have been violated, following his arrest in the United Arab Emirates.

Cyril Karabus (77) was taken into custody while in transit in Dubai last month on charges of manslaughter and forging documents.

Unbeknown to him, Karabus was sentenced in absentia after the cancer patient he had been treating died at an Abu Dhabi hospital back in 2002.

He is expected to appear in court again next week.

SAMA has been trying to help Karabus by asking other organisations to put pressure on authorities in Abu Dhabi to release him.

SAMA’s Mark Sonderup said, “Any sensible person would see this for what it is and that’s a complete violation of someone’s rights.”

Karabus' daughter Sarah is worried about her father's health.

“We are absolutely beside ourselves as it’s been the most difficult six weeks of our lives.”

It’s alleged that Karabus, who was working as a locum in Abu Dhabi in 2002, neglected to give his terminally ill patient a blood transfusion when she needed it.

(Edited by Tamsin Wort)

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