The patients were treated by Yaser Jabbar, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon who worked at the hospital’s lower limb reconstruction service.
Great Ormond Street Hospital says it is carrying out an urgent review of the cases of more than 700 patients after concerns were raised about one of its former surgeons.
GOSH said it had contacted all 721 patients or their families on more than one occasion and will continue to be in touch throughout the review process. Of the 39 cases reviewed so far, 22 children have been found to have been harmed, with nine classified as suffering “low/moderate” harm and 13 classified as “severe harm”, with potentially life-long injuries.
A leaked copy of the RCS report, seen by The Sunday Times, is said to have found a leg-straightening and lengthening surgery conducted by Mr Jabbar on one child, a six-year-old boy, to be “incorrect and unsuitable”.
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