The Supreme Court held that compensation for a wound closed with medical stitches is calculated per stitch, with each stitch treated as a flesh wound (mulhimah) worth 450 Rial Omani under the Supreme Court’s settled case law. Stitching is not treated as a medical procedure attracting a single lump-sum award.
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