Veteran journalist El-Ebrashy's widow accuses doctor of 'assassinating' her husband ...

Source: , Posted On:   14 January 2022

Renowned lawyer Samir Sabry, representative of widow Sahar Abdou, filed the complaint against doctor Sherif Abbas, who treated El-Ebrashy during the early stages of his illness with the coronavirus late in 2020.

The complaint accuses Abbas of using secret, unnamed and unregistered pills, which he discovered, and which he claimed could cure the coronavirus within a week no matter how severe the case.

El-Ebrashy “was the victim of a full-fledged murder” committed by the doctor, Sabry said.

Wael El-Ebrashy, the former presenter of the Al-Tasea (“9 o'clock”) program on national TV, contracted the coronavirus in late 2020 and was admitted to the intensive care unit of a quarantine hospital in Giza.

However, he left the hospital in March of last year after his health improved, but continued to receive treatment at home after developing pulmonary fibrosis due to the coronavirus.

This disease prevented him from returning to TV screens, despite frequent reports that he had almost recovered.

‘Fake treatment’ and ‘lung fibrosis’

Sabry said Abbas’s fake treatment caused El-Ebrashy’s condition to significantly deteriorate and ultimately to develop lung fibrosis.

El-Ebrashy was then admitted to the hospital with the disease and later died after suffering from its complications for a year, the complaint says.

Doctors tried over the course of a year to “fix the effects of the murder crime” that Abbas committed, the complaint says, describing the accused doctor as “a heartless, unknowledgeable and unscrupulous show off.”

Secondhand smoke

“The doctor planned to assassinate the late Wael El-Ebrashy,” Sabry said, claiming that Abbas kept on smoking heavily in the same room where he stayed with El-Ebrashy day and night throughout his treatment journey.

“He did not stop smoking although he is a doctor who… knows the dangerous and destructive effect that this amount of smoking will have in a closed room and next to a patient,” Sabry added.

‘Full-fledged medical crime’

Sabry’s complaint to the public prosecution replicated remarks by renowned dermatologist and political author Khaled Montaser on his Facebook page on Thursday.

El-Ebrashy’s widow, Sahar Abdou, told media recently that El-Ebrashy died due to “a medical error by his quarantine doctor,” describing some doctors that she did not name as “murderers.”

Montaser said he considers that El-Ebrashy was the victim of a “full-fledged medical crime and not a medical error as his esteemed wife says.”

‘Groundless accusations’