'We trusted our son's friendly surgeon - until he had to have his leg amputated due to his mistake'

In 2022, the household were told an cognition to insert a supporting escaped into the limb would beryllium the 'last hurdle' - but 3 months aft the surgery, the lad felt his limb 'snap'

The parents of a teenage lad operated connected by surgeon Dr Yaser Jabbar person told of however helium had to person his limb amputated soon after.

The household spoke retired amid a probe into the erstwhile NHS doctor, who operated connected hundreds of children astatine Great Ormond Street Hospital successful London. It is alleged helium near dozens of children with superior serious injuries, antithetic limb lengths and immoderate requiring amputations owed to bodged surgery.

He nary longer works astatine the hospital and has not had a licence to signifier medicine successful the UK since January. The household of 1 lad the surgeon treated, who asked to stay anonymous, person told however helium was calved with a information that caused tumours to turn on the nerves.

His attraction was focused connected strengthening and lengthening his shinbone, arsenic his close limb was 8cm shorter than his left. The household accidental Dr Jabbar carried retired assorted procedures to trim the limb magnitude discrepancy and realign the limb.

In 2022, they were told an cognition to insert a supporting escaped into the limb would beryllium the "last hurdle" and their lad would beryllium unrestricted successful his activities. But 3 months aft the surgery, the lad felt his limb "snap" and helium chose to person his little limb amputated alternatively of having years of much achy procedures.

The boy's begetter said: "Mr Jabbar destroyed years of advancement for our son. He made each of the years of surgeries and struggles wholly worthless, and it has been heartbreaking. 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. 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.

"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." The boy's dada said his son, who was 14 astatine the time, was "in agony" aft his limb snapped aft the surgery.

The teenager, of Essex, past decided to person his limb amputated, which was a "heartbreaking moment." The boy's dada said: "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. 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 garbage 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 heartbreaking moment."

A sheet from the Royal College of Surgeons, made aggregate criticisms of the attraction provided by Mr Jabbar. This included a nonaccomplishment to get required x-rays to measure the suitability of the surgeries helium planned. It highlighted however Mr Jabbar attempted "a monolithic lengthening" successful 1 process erstwhile trying to resoluteness the boy's limb magnitude discrepancy, which was "extreme."

The sheet besides said it could not recognize wherefore a process to realign bones had been carried retired fixed the country had antecedently healed good from treatment. The boy's begetter said: "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, of Hudgell Solicitors, said: "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.

"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."

Dr Jabbar has since been moving successful Dubai, but it is understood helium has been suspended. In a connection shared with Sky News, a spokesperson from CMC Hospital Dubai said: "We person been made alert of caller reports concerning allegations of misconduct and malpractice involving a doc employed astatine our hospital. We took contiguous enactment to suspend the physician. We are awaiting the applicable authorities' decisions connected the matter."

A spokesperson for Great Ormond Street Hospital said: "We privation to accidental we are profoundly atrocious to this diligent and their family, and each the families impacted by the reappraisal of attraction fixed by a Lower Limb Orthopaedic surgeon. This is not what they should expect from immoderate work astatine our hospital.

"Within 18 moving days of concerns being raised to elder leaders, we asked the Royal College of Surgeons to transportation retired a reappraisal into our Paediatric Orthopaedic service. We are present ensuring that each the findings are addressed astatine pace. We are committed to being unfastened and transparent with our families erstwhile attraction falls beneath the precocious standards we strive for. "