Three Dubai doctors have been handed one-year jail term over a botched nose surgery.
A Dubai court on Wednesday found a surgeon, an anaesthetist and an anaesthetic technician guilty of malpractice and negligence that left 25-year-old Rowda Al Maeeni in a coma.
The doctors, who worked for First Med Day Surgery Centre, will be deported after serving their prison term.
The judge also fined the clinic AED 300,000.
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