Karabus' problems of his own making - agency
The Canadian agency that hired Cape Town paediatrician Cyril Karabus to work as a doctor in Abu Dhabi says it is not responsible for his imprisonment there and that he should have 'known better' than to enter a country in which one of his patients had died, notes a report in The Times.
Karabus is planning to sue the agency and the hospital at which he worked. He was arrested in August 2012 in connection with the death of a three-year-old cancer patient he had treated in Abu Dhabi in 2002. Though medical records absolved him of wrongdoing, he spent two months in jail and seven months under house arrest. 'Dr Karabus knew, or ought to have known, based on the death of one of his patients ... that he might be detained if he travelled through Abu Dhabi,' the agency contended in its responding affidavit. 'As such, any alleged damages suffered by Dr Karabus in connection therewith were caused or contributed by Dr Karabus' own negligence.' The agency warned that if Karabus proceeded with the lawsuit, it would 'seek substantial security for costs'. Karabus said he could not believe the agency's indifference to his predicament. Full report in The Times