My daughter’s leg was amputated after rogue surgeon botched her bone operation – the NHS nonetheless refuse to offer us closure regardless of derailing our lives

A Good Morning Britain guest opened up about the nightmare he’s endured after a crooked surgeon botched his daughter’s surgery and had to amputate her leg on Friday’s show. 

Dean Stalham appeared on the ITV show alongside Doctor Amir Khan, 42, to talk about his 13-year-old daughter Bunty’s experience under the care of Yaser Jabbar at Great Ormond Street Hospital, which saw her undergo five unsuccessful operations. 

Bunty, who is one of 94 children harmed by the doctor, started having treatment for a rare bone condition (Neurofibromatosis) at 18 months old and met Doctor Jabbar when she was five.

‘Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a genetic condition where tumours grow on the nerves and skin. There’s currently no cure, but treatment can help manage your symptoms,’ according to the NHS website. 

Speaking of Doctor Jabbar, Dean told Kate Garraway and Ranvir Singh: ‘He had an extremely large ego and he did flounce around the wards, spend a minute at the bed, and tell us that every operation was a success. 

‘Including the amputation, how can that be a success? 

‘But yet he said he left in a three inch of perfect bone hanging down from her knee which will help with prosthetics, then he just washed his hands of her.

‘Then went up to St Georges, a prosthetic hospital, and they got in touch with us and said that the bone isn’t straight.’ 

Dean recalled the moment that he was introduced to the family and said: ‘It seemed to come out of the blue that she had been passed over to this surgeon. 

‘He explained the first operation, then after that, every operation was absolutely horrific. He lengthened her leg with a piece of bone from her hip.’ 

Kate pointed out to Dean: ‘You knew there was a risk she may have to have her leg amputated, but in a sense he was offering something instead of that, which of course, as a parent, you’re going to grab aren’t you?’ 

Dean explained: ‘We did but also, amputation wasn’t mentioned right until the end by him because up until then, as I said yesterday, we’d been fed a dream of recovery, we were going along those lines of recovery and then all of a sudden, she’s with him.’

He explained that he raised concerns when the second operation didn’t work.  

Dean told Kate and Ranvir: ‘When the leg lengthening didn’t work, the second operation. When that didn’t work…

‘He’d shown off about it, “I’ve made her leg 2cm longer than the other one, she’s going to be great”. 

‘When that didn’t work, he took the hip bone back out and concertinaed her bones together, which made her leg six inches shorter than the other one. 

‘That’s when I thought “What’s going on here?” He experimented on her, I’m sure of that. That’s when I brought it up.’ 

Ranvir asked what was said when he raised his complaints, to which Dean claimed: ‘I raised concerns about the operation. 

‘The leg shortening one, which was horrific. I actually instructed a solicitor to look into him. This was two years before I got the letter. 

‘It hit a brick wall, they brought on another surgeon to do a report on him. He looked into it and said I can’t see anything wrong with the operations he’s done. It’s fine.

‘Then I got a letter from GOSH saying that he’d been suspended. And I was like “Wow, I was right all along”. 

He continued: ‘Then the fight started again after that. Management are not accepting any culpability whatsoever on this.’ 

Dean then explained how Bunty is doing now.

He said: ‘She’s doing great. I was thinking the other day, she’s up for trying anything, one day she said I want to be a gymnast. So we took her to gymnastics.

‘What happens with her is, she’s doing horse riding at the moment, which is amazing. 

‘But what it is, but she pulls back when she reaches her limitations. When she couldn’t go on the bench or the horse, she didn’t want to do gymnastics anymore.

‘When she goes to dance, the more you go, the more people over take you, she pulled back.

‘At the moment with the horse riding, she goes once a month, she’s getting up to a canter and she loves it.’ 

When Ranvir pointed out that Doctor Jabbar now lives abroad, Dean asked: ‘How can he sleep at night?’  

Matthew Shaw, CEO, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, said: ‘We are profoundly sorry to all the patients and their families who have been affected by the care provided by Mr Jabbar, an Orthopaedic Surgeon at our hospital between 2017- 2022.

‘The report we have published [today] sets out in full what happened, what we found in our review of patients, what we have learnt and what we have done as a consequence.

‘We have made significant changes to both the Orthopaedic Service itself and across the hospital to minimise the chance of something like this happening again. 

‘Many of these changes are designed to help spot potential issues before they become a risk to patient care.

‘We know this comes too late for the families affected by this issue, but we are committed to ensuring our hospital is a better and safer place for all current and future patients.’

On Thursday it was revealed Great Ormond Street Hospital orthopaedic surgeon Doctor Jabber, who botched operations injured almost 100 children, a report has revealed – as a victim told of being left in ‘horrifying’ pain.

Some 36 of Yaser Jabbar’s patients suffered severe harm, a report published by Great Ormond Street Hospital has concluded.

GOSH released a review on Thursday into the actions of Jabbar, who treated hundreds of children from 2017 to 2022. 

It found 36 children endured severe harm while under the care of the surgeon, who worked on lower limb reconstruction.

A further 39 patients came to moderate harm and 19 patients came to mild harm.

The study also reported that 642 patients did not come to harm that could be attributable to the surgeon.

The disgraced surgeon is understood to live abroad and no longer has a licence to practise medicine in the UK.

Children suffered chronic pain, deformities, permanent nerve damage and even an amputation after being operated on by him.

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