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The South African doctor who was held in the United Arab Emirates on a charge of manslaughter says he intends suing Emirates Airline and the Canadian hospital group which organised his locum in Abu Dhabi nearly a decade ago.
Seventy-eight-year-old, Dr Cyril Karabus, returned home from the UAE in the middle of May after he was eventually acquitted on charges related to the death of a three year old patient he treated for leukemia in 2002.
His lawyer, Michael Bagraim, who fought tirelessly for his release, told Algoa FM News during a visit to Port Elizabeth on Monday that one course of legal action is to sue the Canadian hospital group that initially employed Karabus.
"The hospital group should have warned him that there was this problem, they knew about it, they paid blood money and they never bothered to tell him. Our initial advice from the Canadian attorneys is that the case is a strong one, and they will do it on a contingency basis in other words 50/50, they are busy investigating it and I think within the next week or two they will be advising us on whether or not to pursue it," Bagraim said,.
