A Saudi man was arrested after he shot a male obstetrician,
arguing that he had no right to assist his wife’s delivery and that a woman
gynecologist should have been around.
Dr Muhannad Al Zabn, who has a Jordanian father and a Saudi
mother, delivered the baby one month ago at the King Fahad Medical City in the
Saudi capital Riyadh.
The man, who has not been named, is believed to have wanted
a female doctor to deliver the baby and was upset that the male doctor would
have seen his wife naked.
According to media reports, the father went to the hospital
and told the doctor he wanted to see him to thank him for helping his wife with
the delivery of the baby, Saudi news site Sabq reported on Thursday.
The two met in the garden of the hospital and during the
conversation, the shooter took out a gun he had concealed under his clothes and
fired at the doctor.
As the Saudi father fled the scene, medics rushed the victim
to the emergency department then to the intensive care unit. The shooter was
later arrested by the police. Bassam Al Buraikan, the spokesperson for the
hospital confirmed the incident, saying that a doctor was shot and that his
condition was now stable.
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