Surgeon struck off after wrongly connecting organs
Summary
A surgeon working in the NHS made a serious mistake during an emergency bowel operation, putting a patient's life at risk. The doctor was removed from the medical register after a tribunal found his actions and care after surgery were unacceptable.Key Facts
- Dr. Yasser Adly Abdel Rahman, an NHS locum surgeon from Egypt, performed a bowel surgery with a major error in 2020.
- The surgery caused the patient’s bowel contents to be wrongly put back into the stomach, causing severe pain and risk to the patient’s life.
- Another surgeon had to fix the mistake in a second operation.
- An expert witness described Dr. Rahman’s procedure as “not known to man” and “as bad as it gets.”
- Dr. Rahman did not attend the hearing and said he was unfairly blamed.
- He broke a previous order restricting his medical work by taking a job in Ireland.
- The tribunal ruled his actions made him unfit to continue as a doctor and removed him from the medical register.
- The case was handled by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in Manchester.
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