A pediatric orthopedic surgeon, Dr Yaser Jabbar, has been immediately suspended from the Clemenceau Medical Centre where he was working.
This comes after charges of botched surgeries that he performed on children came to the light.
In a statement, Dr Alya Al Mazrouei, CEO of the hospital, said, “CMC Hospital Dubai has been made aware of recent reports concerning allegations of misconduct and malpractice involving a physician employed at our hospital. We took immediate action to suspend the physician. We are awaiting the relevant authorities’ decisions on the matter.”
According to British media reports, Dr Yaser has been accused of performing surgeries that resulted in several children having limbs of varying lengths and even causing one child to have an amputation, an outcome that could have been avoided if a different course of action had been taken.
The doctor is also listed as practicing at a medical facility called Orthocure and Medcare Orthopaedics and Spine Hospital in Al Safa, which the hospital denied.
In the statement issued, the hospital authorities said, “Dr Yaser Jabbar has never consulted any patient or performed a surgery at Medcare till date. He was an external consultant at Orthocure, and Orthocure partnered with us for usage of surgical facilities.”
Dr Yaser joined Orthocure only seven months ago, and a now deleted Instagram post from the facility described him as having “over 20 years of extensive clinical experience”.
The 10th Annual MENA International Orthopaedic Congress, which is scheduled to take place in Dubai on Thursday, has dropped his name from the speakers’ list.
The Great Ormond Street Hospital where Dr Yaser practiced from 2017 until late 2023, is overseeing an urgent review of more than 700 cases of his patients. The hospital said that 22 children in 39 cases looked at so far had contracted some degree of harm.
According to a statement issued by the hospital to British media, definitive allegations were first raised against the doctor in June 2022. He was placed on paid sabbatical leave for 11 months, and he resigned in September 2023.
It remains unclear whether he has conducted any surgeries in the UAE since he arrived.
