Wednesday 13/November/2024 – 08:49 PM
The Qena Criminal Court, headed by Counselor Mustafa Ahmed Mohamed Abdel-Al, with the membership of Counselors Tamer Ahmed Reda and Abu Bakr Yassin Abu Bakr, and secretariats of Salah Farraj, Alaa Suluk, Ashraf Khalafallah, and Mohamed Salah, ruled to punish a teacher with one year’s imprisonment with a suspended sentence for forging a medical report stating his injury. Cancer, with the intention of obtaining sick leave, in the Qus Center District, south of Qena Governorate.
A teacher was imprisoned for one year with a suspended sentence
The events of the case go back to July 2023, when the investigating authorities charged the defendant, S.M., 36 years old, a preparatory teacher in the Qus Educational Administration, with the charge of forging an official document, which was a medical report stating that he had cancer, with the intention of obtaining sick leave.
Investigations revealed that the accused came to the General Medical Committee for Health Insurance in Qena to obtain a sick leave, and claimed that he was sick and bedridden because he had stomach cancer. He presented to the committee a medical report from the Qena Oncology Center, a blood picture from the Qena Oncology Center, a pathological analysis, and an endoscopy report prepared from the Qena Center. Qena tumors. However, the medical committee doubted that the patient was suffering from these diseases, given that he was in good health and that most patients with stomach cancer tumors suffer from weakness and weight loss resulting from the inability to eat, which prompted it to inquire about… Oncology Center in Qena confirmed the authenticity of the papers submitted by the accused and discovered the forgery.
The case was referred to the Qena Criminal Court, which sentenced the accused to a suspended sentence of one year in prison.
