انعكاس الأخطاء الطبية في المستشفيات الفلسطينية على الأسرة و المجتمع : دراسة من وجهة نظر أسر الضحايا في جنوب الضفة الغربية من العام 2010 لغاية 2016

Abstract EN

This study aims at revealing the most important negative social effects of the medical errors on the families' victims.

It also identifies the reactions of those medical errors on the Palestinian community in the southern part of West Bank.

The researcher used the descriptive methodology as well as the structured interview with the victims and their families using a guide prepared by the researcher.

The study was conducted on a purposeful sample of (18) families that have already been suffering from medical errors that led to death and partial or total disability.

Results of the study showed the following: 1) Lack of confidence in the hospitals situating in the south of WB with respect to providing treatment for patients.

Those hospitals have gained unsatisfactory reputation.

The victim families also feel anxious, scared and tensed during medication period.

The negative effect of the medical errors depends on the size and quality of these errors.

It also varies from one individual to another, so there are psychological and social effects disturbing all family members.

2) The consequences of medical errors in the Palestinian West Bank familiesare divided into two important types: moral and physical.

Medical errorstriggers to physical disability that requires a long term nursing or assistance to support the victim of medical error.

This would financially exhaust the low-income family in particular.

Needless to say, this family needs also to haveafree member of the same family to look after the aggrieved son both inside and outside the home.

As a result, the patient or his family is forced to appeal to both formal and informal institutions to provide support.

3) Subjects of the study show some resentment against public and private hospitals since there are murmurings of inexperienced doctors working in hospitals.

They also claim that media which doesn't fulfill its duties towards the victims.

of decision makers should legislate a strict a law on medical errors.