{"id":45788,"date":"2026-01-31T02:20:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T02:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T02:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T02:20:33","slug":"12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/","title":{"rendered":"12-year-old patient harmed by GOSH surgeon talks about his ordeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A former patient of Yaser Jabbar has spoken to the BBC about his experience with the limb reconstruction surgeon when he was just six years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;We saw some mistakes on my leg and we realised something happened wrong&#8221;, 12-year-old Vivaan Sharma said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">An investigation, published by London&#8217;s Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) into Jabbar, found widespread evidence of unacceptable practice in the botched operations he carried out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Jabbar worked at the hospital between 2017 and 2022, providing care to 789 children \u2013 94 of them came to harm, GOSH&#8217;s report concluded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;We had to have even more surgeries and more surgeries&#8230; this is stuck for life, I&#8217;ve got so many scars on my leg&#8221;, Sharma shared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cq841e4n4v8o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\">Read more on this story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cgl83rwz15zo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former patient of Yaser Jabbar has spoken to the BBC about his experience with the limb reconstruction surgeon when he was just six years old. &#8220;We saw some mistakes on my leg and we realised something happened wrong&#8221;, 12-year-old Vivaan Sharma said. An investigation, published by London&#8217;s Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) into Jabbar, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[13491,13492,10909,2348,2381,5753,220],"class_list":["post-45788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-12yearold","tag-gosh","tag-harmed","tag-ordeal","tag-patient","tag-surgeon","tag-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45790,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45788\/revisions\/45790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}