A locum NHS surgeon has been erased from the medical register after a catastrophic error during an emergency bowel operation nearly killed a patient. Dr Yasser Adly Abdel Rahman performed the procedure on a young man at the Royal Oldham Hospital on August 25, 2020, but wrongly connected the organs, creating a dangerous 'closed loop' that redirected bowel contents back into the stomach.
Patient in 'uncontrollable pain'
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) heard that the patient suffered 'uncontrollable pain' and could have died had another surgeon not corrected the error in a second operation. Dr Rahman, who qualified in 1993 from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, did not attend the hearing and was not legally represented.
Despite concerns raised by the patient's parents and other medics, Dr Rahman never considered that something might have gone wrong surgically, the tribunal was told. A former consultant general and colorectal surgeon, acting as an expert witness for the General Medical Council, described the procedure as 'not known to man' and said the error was 'as bad as it gets'.
Breach of restrictions
The MPTS imposed an order restricting Dr Rahman's work as a doctor in July 2021. However, he breached these conditions by securing a locum position at Affidea Express Care Clinic in Ireland in February 2022, which the tribunal deemed an 'aggravating' feature on top of his 'significant' surgical and post-operative care errors.
Dr Rahman claimed he had been made a 'scapegoat' after a 'witch hunt'. The tribunal concluded last month that his misconduct was 'fundamentally incompatible with continued registration' and removed him from the medical register.
