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29 March 2024

Clinically dead boy’s 15-year fight for life in UAE hospital

Hamad Mohammed Saleh Al Kaab. (SUPPLIED)

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For the last 15 years, Hamad Mohammed Saleh Al Kaabi, an Emirati has been lying in the Fujairah-Dibba hospital.

In a heartbreaking story of tragedy, the Al Khaleej Arabic daily writes about how, 15 years ago, Hamad fell in a water basin aged 8 months.

He was admitted to hospital. Today, as teenager, he is still there.

Doctors here and abroad have tried hard to better Hamad’s condition – as he has been reduced to a vegetative state for his entire life -  but to no avail.

Hamad has been pronounced clinically dead.

He is now kept alive by machines, and as Dr Abdullah Salim Al Kaabi, head of Dibba Fujairah hospital, says, “divine providence”.

Recalling the accident, Hamad’s father said they found his body floating in the basin while his mother was drinking coffee with friends.

They rushed Hamad to hospital where doctors told the family that he was dead.

However, one of the doctors discovered that his heart was still beating.

He was then moved to Al Mafraq hospital by helicopter, where he was pronounced clinically dead as a result of cerebral palsy, physical disability, stiffness of muscles and quadriplegia due to severe damage to his head as a result of the fall.

Two years ago, Hamad was admitted to a hospital in Thailand under the sponsorship of General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, where doctors were of the view that his condition could get better with medical care.

They moved him to Khalifa Hospital where his treatment was followed up by a Thai doctor who visited the hospital.

However, later he was shifted back to the Fujairah-Dibba hospital.

Dr Al Kaabi, says, “Hamad is the oldest patient in the hospital. He has grown 100 centimeters tall and weighs 30 kg.”