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Mr Jabbar had operated on Jodee’s daughter in 2022, when she was eight years old, fitting metal plates into her knees for leg lengthening and straightening.<\/p>\n
He was a leading surgeon at the renowned hospital, operating on children with complicated disorders and carrying out procedures such as the one undergone by Alana. <\/p>\n
The hospital has since initiated independent reports into each of his 723 patients, to conclude what level of harm they had experienced.<\/p>\n
Some cases linked to him resulted in harm including life-long injuries and amputation.<\/p>\n
Jodee, from Essex, told the BBC’s Newsnight programme she had had no idea of the doctor’s reputation when her daughter Alana was referred to his care in 2021. <\/p>\n
At that point, concerns had already been raised about Mr Jabbar.<\/p>\n
She said in the family’s first consultation in March 2021, which lasted “about five minutes”, Mr Jabbar had advised the invasive surgery.<\/p>\n
“We didn’t want to rock the boat too much because he seemed like he knew exactly what he was doing,” she said.<\/p>\n
“So we kind of went along with it thinking he’s an orthopaedic surgeon, it’s Great Ormond Street [Hospital]. We trusted him.”<\/p>\n
The operation took place 10 months later, in January 2022. During that period, more professional complaints from other surgeons were raised with the managers at the hospital.<\/p>\n
None of this was ever disclosed to Jodee or other families of Mr Jabbar’s patients.<\/p>\n
She said the surgery had appeared to go well and, with Alana’s leg bandaged up, there had not seemed to be any immediate problems.<\/p>\n
But when the bandage came off a few weeks later, Jodee saw two scars instead of one on the inside of her child’s leg when they had been told it would be just one incision.<\/p>\n
“So the alarm bells rang at that point,” she said.<\/p>\n
As weeks went by, the mobility of Alana, now aged 11, was not improving and she was reporting pain frequently, often needing painkillers.<\/p>\n
Jodee said she had thought at first: “Well, maybe it just hasn’t worked? Maybe that wasn’t the right procedure and it will be removed? Or maybe it’s just too early to tell?”<\/p>\n
She said she had expected regular check-ups from the hospital but a follow-up appointment did not come until six months after the operation.<\/p>\n
The plates in Alana’s knees were supposed to be there for about two years. Jodee says they saw another surgeon at the hospital in a follow-up in July – six months after the operation – who recommended they not come out. <\/p>\n
Then, by chance, they saw Mr Jabbar on the same visit.<\/p>\n
Jodee says he took one look and said they “needed to come out immediately” and asked the family to return the following day for another major operation.<\/p>\n
He told the family he was worried Alana’s tendons could re-fuse to the metal plates, Jodee says.<\/p>\n
“We were really panicked, we were really worried…. [thinking] ‘What have we done, is she okay, is it long-term damage?'”<\/p>\n
They returned to the hospital in August 2022 to have the plates removed. <\/p>\n
But the family’s concern was now so strong that they moved Alana to a different hospital months after. <\/p>\n
She continued to lose mobility and have other problems during this period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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