{"id":4932,"date":"2026-01-30T09:05:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T09:05:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:05:43","slug":"12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/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,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;12-year-old patient harmed by GOSH surgeon talks about his ordeal&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/349a\/live\/29165510-fdb6-11f0-a8b8-bdd2c5f9bcad.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v17.8 (Yoast SEO v22.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>12-year-old patient harmed by GOSH surgeon talks about his ordeal - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"12-year-old patient harmed by GOSH surgeon talks about his ordeal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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,...Read More &ldquo;12-year-old patient harmed by GOSH surgeon talks about his ordeal&rdquo; &raquo;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Breaking News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-01-30T09:05:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/349a\/live\/29165510-fdb6-11f0-a8b8-bdd2c5f9bcad.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/349a\/live\/29165510-fdb6-11f0-a8b8-bdd2c5f9bcad.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/8b364f5cc7fbc8705a888e63db8c026a\"},\"headline\":\"12-year-old patient harmed by GOSH surgeon talks about his ordeal\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-01-30T09:05:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-01-30T09:05:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/\"},\"wordCount\":132,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Health\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/#respond\"]}],\"copyrightYear\":\"2026\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/\",\"name\":\"12-year-old patient harmed by GOSH surgeon talks about his ordeal - Breaking News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2026-01-30T09:05:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-01-30T09:05:43+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"12-year-old patient harmed by GOSH surgeon talks about his ordeal\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Breaking News\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Breaking News\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ventilshop-2362x591-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ventilshop-2362x591-1.png\",\"width\":1445,\"height\":591,\"caption\":\"Breaking News\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/8b364f5cc7fbc8705a888e63db8c026a\",\"name\":\"Admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e3dd0b52c93ce674a00a0dbe8383290fdc661c12a7e48e5953f790da3887973d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e3dd0b52c93ce674a00a0dbe8383290fdc661c12a7e48e5953f790da3887973d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"12-year-old patient harmed by GOSH surgeon talks about his ordeal - Breaking News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"12-year-old patient harmed by GOSH surgeon talks about his ordeal","og_description":"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,...Read More &ldquo;12-year-old patient harmed by GOSH surgeon talks about his ordeal&rdquo; &raquo;","og_url":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/","og_site_name":"Breaking News","article_published_time":"2026-01-30T09:05:43+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/349a\/live\/29165510-fdb6-11f0-a8b8-bdd2c5f9bcad.jpg"}],"author":"Admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_image":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/349a\/live\/29165510-fdb6-11f0-a8b8-bdd2c5f9bcad.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Admin","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/"},"author":{"name":"Admin","@id":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/8b364f5cc7fbc8705a888e63db8c026a"},"headline":"12-year-old patient harmed by GOSH surgeon talks about his ordeal","datePublished":"2026-01-30T09:05:43+00:00","dateModified":"2026-01-30T09:05:43+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/"},"wordCount":132,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Health"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/#respond"]}],"copyrightYear":"2026","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/","url":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/","name":"12-year-old patient harmed by GOSH surgeon talks about his ordeal - Breaking News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2026-01-30T09:05:43+00:00","dateModified":"2026-01-30T09:05:43+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/12-year-old-patient-harmed-by-gosh-surgeon-talks-about-his-ordeal\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"12-year-old patient harmed by GOSH surgeon talks about his ordeal"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/","name":"Breaking News","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#organization","name":"Breaking News","url":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ventilshop-2362x591-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ventilshop-2362x591-1.png","width":1445,"height":591,"caption":"Breaking News"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/8b364f5cc7fbc8705a888e63db8c026a","name":"Admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e3dd0b52c93ce674a00a0dbe8383290fdc661c12a7e48e5953f790da3887973d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e3dd0b52c93ce674a00a0dbe8383290fdc661c12a7e48e5953f790da3887973d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog"],"url":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}