Teen has leg amputated after 'blasé' surgeon operated on him

Dr Yaser Jabbar, who nary longer works astatine Great Ormond Street Hospital, operated connected 721 children earlier his suspension and is alleged to person near dozens of kids with superior injuries

The parents of a teenage lad who was operated connected by the arguable surgeon Dr Yaser Jabbar person revealed that their lad had to person his limb amputated soon aft the surgery. The family's revelation comes amidst an probe into erstwhile NHS orthopaedic surgeon Dr Jabbar, who performed operations connected 721 children astatine Great Ormond Street Hospital successful London.

It is alleged that helium near dozens of children with superior injuries, uneven limb lengths and immoderate adjacent requiring amputations owed to botched surgeries. Dr Jabbar nary longer works astatine Great Ormond Street Hospital and has not held a licence to practise medicine successful the UK since January.

The household of 1 lad helium treated, who wished to stay anonymous, shared that their lad was calved with a information causing tumours to turn on his nerves. His attraction was centred astir strengthening and lengthening his shinbone, arsenic his close limb was 8cm shorter than his left.

The household claims that Dr Jabbar carried retired assorted procedures to trim the discrepancy successful limb magnitude and realign the limb. In 2022, they were informed that an cognition to insert a supporting rod into the limb would beryllium the "last hurdle" and their lad would past beryllium unrestricted successful his activities.

However, 3 months post-surgery, the lad felt his limb "snap" and opted for amputation of his little limb alternatively of enduring years of much achy procedures. The boy's begetter stated: "Mr Jabbar destroyed years of advancement for our son," reports MyLondon.

The devastated parents recounted their son's ordeal, saying: "He made each of the years of surgeries and struggles wholly worthless, and it has been heart-breaking. We trusted Mr Jabbar. He was friendly, jokey, and really a truly likeable chap, who fundamentally told you arsenic parents not to worry. He gave the content that nary substance however analyzable the problem, helium was the antheral to benignant it."

They continued with dense hearts: "He ever promised our lad that he'd resoluteness his issues, get his legs the aforesaid magnitude and permission him capable to deterioration mean trainers similar the different kids. That is what helium has ever wanted arsenic helium has worn aesculapian shoes with raised soles each his life."

The begetter added, "He said helium was going to insert the rod and that it was the last hurdle to flooded for our lad to beryllium near successful a overmuch amended presumption for the remainder of his life. Basically though, erstwhile our lad near infirmary aft Mr Jabbar had inserted that rod, it was a ticking time-bomb."

Recalling the traumatic aftermath, the boy's dada revealed: "Just weeks aft the country helium felt his limb drawback and helium was successful agony. His ft was conscionable near flapping around. When it was recovered the rod had a spread successful it, which had near it weak, and that Mr Jabbar had besides enactment it successful the incorrect position, helium was truthful blasé implicit it."

The teen from Essex faced a harrowing determination and yet chose to person his limb amputated, a determination described by his begetter arsenic a "heart-breaking moment."

The boy's begetter recounted: "He said to america that helium 'couldn't judge it' and that it could beryllium sorted. But by past it was a lawsuit of having to re-fuse the bones, which had been further damaged, and look yet much surgery. Our lad conscionable said 'cut it off' arsenic he'd simply had enough. That was a heart-breaking moment."

A damning study by the Royal College of Surgeons criticised Mr Jabbar's treatment, citing his nonaccomplishment to get indispensable x-rays and attempting an overly ambitious procedure. The sheet besides questioned the determination to realign bones that had antecedently healed well.

The begetter demanded answers from Great Ormond Street Hospital, saying: "We present privation to cognize precisely what Great Ormond Street Hospital knew astir this surgeon and when."

"Our lad ended up with an amputation successful 2022, and we present cognize radical had complained astir him good earlier then. We privation to cognize what they didn't cognize too, due to the fact that that would bespeak a deficiency of supervision and monitoring. They should've known what was going connected overmuch sooner. It is simply unacceptable."

Caroline Murgatroyd, from Hudgell Solicitors, expressed her dismay saying: "Mr Jabbar was a surgeon not pursuing acceptable practice, not consulting with different specialists implicit precise analyzable country and attraction arsenic helium should person been, and whose mediocre determination making led a Royal College of Surgeons sheet to reason helium lacked the required experience. His assessments, examinations, diagnosis, objective determination making and attraction were each recovered to beryllium unacceptable."

She added the result for the diligent was devastating, "There cannot beryllium a much damning reappraisal of a patient's treatment, and for this lad it came astatine a immense cost, arsenic having been done years of surgery, each of which was aimed astatine redeeming his leg. He ended up having an amputation pursuing the failed attraction astatine the hands of Mr Jabbar."