The stability of his health, and tomorrow a date for a second catheter to stop the bleeding in the brain
Family doctor suspended Samahiji demanding transferred abroad for treatment
Center - Ali al-Moussawi
Stabilized the health status of a doctor detained Said Samahiji, during the past two days, after he held a Lebanese physician Joseph Salama, a catheter in the brain, to stop the bleeding that he suffered Samahiji, a prison in the Dry Dock on last Tuesday (9 August / August 2011).
He said the people of the doctor Samahiji, they visited him in the care of the central compound SMC, and was in stable condition healthy but seriously, displaying concern that «the situation develops health Smahigi, and it becomes difficult to treat, especially since the temperature was very high on Monday (August 15 current) ».
He called the people Samahiji «that the Government take a decision to transfer to the outside, and treatment of severe bleeding that he suffered. According to what we know that it has no cure in Bahrain, and treatment requires the advent of a specialist from outside Bahrain, or move abroad for treatment, and we see that the second option the most appropriate and best, especially if what was in the hospital specializes in treating such cases ».
They pointed out that «the psychological condition of the doctor Samahiji deteriorating very, very small talk with us».
And the process scheduled to take place after the first operation carried out on the evening of last Wednesday (10 August / August 2011), seven or ten days, the people of Samahiji said that: «is scheduled to be a second operation tomorrow, but we do not even know now who is a doctor which will be the process. We learned that if there were not the feasibility of the process of the second catheter, the work will be surgery to stop bleeding and treat Samahiji, and this is what we fear, because this process would be very dangerous ». They pointed out that: «CT scan was done to the brain, we do not know the results of these rays so far».
Referred to the doctor detained in the prison of the dry dock, with the other medical staff, had taken to the military hospital at the beginning of suffering a health crisis, where he was suffering from headaches, and he underwent tests and CT scan imaging of the veins and blood CT.
According to an earlier statement to the Ministry of Health, in the words of director of public relations Abdulaziz Al Rifai it: «it was diagnosed the existence of the so-called« aneurysm »This situation can occur due to defects in blood vessels, has been transferred to the SMC as the competent authority for such cases, where it was previewed by a number of specialists in this field, including specialists and emergency neurosurgery and radiation brain and spinal cord surgery and interventional ».
Al-Rifai said: «According to the practical needs of the medical team has found that the optimal treatment for such cases, surgery preemptive action by the catheter and is not open surgery of the brain. Therefore, it has been arranged between the radiation specialist brain surgery and interventional physician to bring in the same jurisdiction from abroad to assist in the surgery »
Gulf Daily News - No. 3265 - Tuesday, August 16, 2011, corresponding to 16 Ramadan 1432 H