Sharjah school brawl costs boy his finger

A 12-year-old Emirati school boy lost parts of his two fingers in a fight with another student at a Sharjah school after the door slammed on his hand during the scuffle.

His mother blamed the other student, the school and a nurse who took her son to hospital in a school bus without collecting the severed finger parts.

Doctors performed an urgent surgery on Mohammed to straighten bones and stitch back finger tissues but they admitted the boy has to live without those two parts.

Infuriated by the incident, Umm Mohammed reported Gems Westminster school to Sharjah police but she was told she has to file a complaint against the other student.

She also blamed a school nurse for the loss of the severed parts, saying the nurse rushed Mohammed to hospital in a school bus without bothering collect the severed parts.

“The nurse was even busy recording my son’s data although he was screaming of pain and begging her to treat him,” Umm Mohammed told Emarat Al Youm daily.

The paper said Umm Mohammed complained to the Ministry of Education and decided to see a lawyer to file a court suit against the school, which said it would investigate the incident.

“The Sharjah Education zone is still investigating the incident with the school after receiving a complaint from the mother,” it said.

The paper quoted Umm Mohammed as saying she was told by doctors her son suffered a 20- per cent disability in his fingers. “Besides the physical pain, the incident caused psychological harm to my son. He does not want to return to school anymore.”