Court holds beauty centre, doctor liable for error

A Gulf woman did not expect that her quest to improve her appearance would turn into a series of months of suffering, beginning with a confident step towards a beauty centre after receiving promises about the results of simple cosmetic procedures and ending with severe pain and serious complications that turned her life upside down.

- Moahmmed Yaseen, Staff Reporter

The Dubai Civil Court heard a lawsuit in which a Gulf woman demanded that a doctor and a beauty centre be jointly obligated to pay her Dhs500,000 as compensation for the material, moral, and psychological harms she suffered as a result of permanent disfigurement and disability, according to the report of the Supreme Medical Committee for Medical Liability.

She also requested the court to obligate the defendants to pay the incurred charges, expenses and lawyer's fees. Earlier, the plaintiff underwent a cosmetic procedure that she thought was routine but the first signs of harm began to appear quickly, including inflammation and slow wound healing.