A South African doctor who dedicated himself to saving the lives of black children from cancer throughout the apartheid era has been refused bail by a court in Abu Dhabi, where years ago he was accused and convicted without his knowledge of killing a young leukaemia patient.
Cyril Karabus pioneered treatment for cancer and blood disorders at the Red Cross hospital in Cape Town, where he worked for 35 years, and trained numerous doctors at Cape Town University, some of whom now work at Great Ormond Street and the Whittington hospitals in London[.]
Now 77, he has been returned to the jail where he has been confined for the last two months. "He is an old, frail and very sickly man," said his lawyer, Michael Bagraims. "He has no travel documents or any means of escaping or jumping bail. There doesn't seem to be any heart in what is taking place.
"My reports from people who were in the court were that the man appears to be broken. He was hunched. He was shackled. He is almost 78 and he has a pacemaker and a stent because of problems with his heart. He appears to have his spirit broken as well. Yet the man has not done anything wrong." » | Sarah Boseley, health editor | Wednesday, October 03, 2012
