Great Ormond Street launches urgent review into rogue doctor who treated 721 children and left youngsters with 'different length legs' and needing an amputation after 'botched' surgeries
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Great Ormond Street launches urgent review into rogue doctor who treated 721 children and left youngsters with 'different length legs' and needing an amputation after 'botched' surgeries

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A 'rogue' doctor who treated 721 children at Great Ormond Street Hospital left young patients with different length legs and needing amputations, it has been claimed. Great Ormond Street has launched an urgent review of all the youngsters treated by former surgeon Yaser Jabbar, 43, in its orthopaedic department Pictured: A male leg with an Ilizarov's external fixator on it Parents have said they are 'very upset' with the treatment that their children received under Jabbar's care. The front entrance of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children where Yaser Jabbar worked as an consultant orthopaedic surgeon The metal apparatus, invented by Soviet physician Dr. Gavriil Abramovich Ilizarov, is composed of stainless steel rings which are fixed to the bone with wires and pins and is gradually stretched to lengthen the bones. Jabbar left Great Ormond Street last September after an 11-month sabbatical that he took after concerns were raised about his practices.

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