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(From The Namibian: AAGM)
Byline: Werner Menges
A young man whose death some four years ago has left a medical doctor facing a charge of culpable homicide, appeared to have died from suffocation, the High Court in Windhoek heard yesterday.
Testimony on the cause of death of 27-year-old Samora Kubas was given by former State pathologist Dr Linda Liebenberg when she testified as a prosecution witness in the trial of medical doctor Ekundayo Olanrewayo Odunlani.
Acting Judge Petrus Unengu this week started hearing evidence in the trial of Dr Odunlani, who is at the centre of a type of case that is extremely rare in Namibia - one in which a doctor is being prosecuted for the death of a patient.
Dr Odunlani has pleaded not guilty to a charge that his negligence caused the death of Kubas, who died on an operating table during emergency surgery in the Katutura State Hospital on May 9 1998.
Kubas arrived at the hospital in the early morning hours of May 9 1998. He had a stab wound to the chest.