A former affected person of rogue surgeon Sam Eljamel has referred to as for the physician to be prosecuted earlier than his victims die with out seeing justice.
Former radio DJ Pat Kelly, 64, has referred to as on the Scottish Authorities to hurry up a public inquiry into the mind butcher surgeon who left an estimated 172 sufferers broken by botched operations.
Mr Kelly, from Dundee, was left in fixed ache and poor well being after an operation by Eljamel.
Now he fears he won’t survive to see the conclusion of a public inquiry into the scandal.
Mr Kelly mentioned: ‘I might like to see him jailed earlier than I die. I might like to see this clown behind bars as a result of it’s horrific what he has accomplished to so many individuals through the years.
Sam Eljamel (pictured) left an estimated 172 sufferers broken by botched operations
Former musician and radio presenter Pat Kelly (pictured) desires the butcher NHS surgeon dropped at justice
I went in to have tumour eliminated. However as an alternative he minimize out my tear gland…
Affected person Jules Rose, 55
Affected person Jules Rose, 55, had a tear gland eliminated as an alternative of a mind tumour by Professor Eljamel. She has suffered from PTSD because the operation.
The mom of two, from Kinross, was operated on by the surgeon in August 2013 – after he was positioned below supervision amid severe issues about his work.
Mrs Rose, who works in training, has been left with dry eyes and unable to put on contact lenses.
She is a member of a affected person motion group set as much as marketing campaign for a public inquiry, and criticised the NHS Tayside inner assessment.
Mr Rose mentioned: ‘NHS Tayside have marked their very own homework with this assessment as a result of they carried it out themselves.
‘My concern is that we are actually listening to of 111 sufferers doubtlessly uncovered to threat of hurt from Professor Eljamel after he was put below supervision.
‘NHS Tayside knew they have been going to droop him after they let him function on me in December 2013. It is a greater scandal than we realised. He butchered sufferers and the gravity and seriousness of this wants a public inquiry.’
Mrs Rose’s campaigning work has included a petition and protests exterior the Scottish parliament.
She added: ‘A number of sufferers coming ahead in rising numbers have been harmed as a consequence of inappropriate, pointless and in lots of circumstances harmful care by this surgeon.
‘Many of those sufferers are actually residing with life-long and life- altering debilitating accidents.
‘As sufferers we have been individually led to consider/misled that our expertise was a singular incident.’
Mrs Rose added: ‘There are numerous important questions that also stay unanswered – and as such there isn’t any assurance that such a state of affairs couldn’t come up once more any day, wherever in our well being system in Scotland.’
‘If the British authorities managed to get an extradition treaty then there is perhaps an opportunity.
‘However then there’s the need of the Scottish Authorities as effectively and I’m not satisfied on that rating.’
Professor Eljamel labored as a marketing consultant neurosurgeon at NHS Tayside from 1995 till December 2013.
The previous head of neurosurgery at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, left sufferers with life-altering accidents.
Regardless of harming sufferers with botched surgical procedures, well being board chiefs allowed him to proceed working till he was suspended in late 2013.
A assessment by NHS Tayside has discovered the neurosurgeon was not correctly supervised regardless of issues about his skills.
He operated on 111 sufferers unsupervised within the final six months of his employment, despite the fact that bosses have been conscious of great complaints.
In a single case, he eliminated the fallacious a part of a physique in an operation.
Jules Rose had her tear duct eliminated as an alternative of her mind tumour.
Eljamel eliminated himself from the medical register in 2014 and left Scotland to stay and work in Libya.
Ms Rose instructed the BBC: ‘He has clearly gone someplace he feels he can get away with it.
‘These poor folks don’t know. They’re utterly oblivious to what harm and what hurt this man has prompted.
‘He’s simply going to do all of it once more.’
Ms Rose, 55, has suffered from PTSD because the operation.
In the meantime, Mr Kelly has been instructed the botched operation by Eljamel might take years off his life.
He mentioned: ‘I do not know the way lengthy I’ve bought. Day-after-day my situation is worse, my well being is deteriorating.’
Mr Kelly had issues courting again to 1992 when he was immediately unable to really feel his legs.
In ache and struggling violent leg shakes, in 2005, he was lastly recognized with thoracic disc herniation, a severe and uncommon spinal situation.
Eljamel agreed to function to shave or take away discs from his backbone however the operation was a catastrophe.
Mr Kelly mentioned: ‘The operation includes entering into by the facet, then they’ve to break down your lung and take away ribs to get proper by previous the center.
‘You might be principally extensive open. It’s a brutal operation. It wants a really expert neurosurgeon to try this.
‘I assumed on the time I used to be blessed to have him.’
4 days after surgical procedure, on February 2, 2007, he collapsed and slipped from his chair. When he got here to, there was ‘chaos’.
Mr Kelly continued: ‘My lung had collapsed and that’s what had prompted me to fall off the chair and faint.
‘I would had a haemorrhage and so they mentioned if the blood went into my lung I might die.
‘They instructed me to say goodbye to my spouse and son.’
The previous radio DJ mentioned there was ‘all kinds of shenanigans’ along with his medical notes and he fears a public inquiry could by no means get to the reality.
Mr Kelly mentioned from 2007 his situation worsened.
He added: ‘I knew operations weren’t at all times assured however as years progressed and nothing improved, I simply thought I had been unfortunate.
Eljamel was head of neurosurgery at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee and left sufferers with life-altering accidents. Regardless of issues over his apply, he was allowed to function on 111 sufferers unsupervised within the six months resulting in his suspension in 2013
Mr Kelly went to Shona Robison for solutions who was the then well being secretary in addition to an SNP MSP for the world
‘I am nonetheless in an excessive amount of ache. If I stand up to the toilet at evening, I can hardly stroll.
‘My mobility is getting worse and worse and I get very breathless. I needs to be in a wheelchair and that can occur finally.
‘Docs have suggested me that there could possibly be an increasing number of issues. But when my discs had been shaved or eliminated that might have prevented the situation from worsening.
‘They can’t function once more due to the scar tissue round that space, so there’s nothing anybody can do for me now.’
In 2014, Mr Kelly learn an article which mentioned Eljamel had been suspended after a collection of botched operations.
He mentioned: ‘I made a decision to write down to NHS Tayside and bought a letter again saying he was suspended however there was not a lot they may do as a result of he had gone now.. I assumed, ‘I’m not bloody having that’.’
He demanded his case was reviewed and an MRI scan confirmed his discs have been in precisely the identical place as that they had been earlier than the operation – proving his operation had been a sham.
Mr Kelly has been combating for solutions ever since. He first went to Shona Robison, the then well being secretary in addition to an SNP MSP for the world.
However he mentioned: ‘She fobbed it off. By then, there was a damning Royal School of Surgeons report and, had she learn that, she would have recognized this wanted to be investigated as a result of what he was as much as was horrendous.
‘Had she acted again then, it could be over. I feel she ought to resign over it as a result of this man prompted severe accidents and to so many individuals whereas she is now Deputy First Minister. It’s a damned shame.’
Mr Kelly is livid {that a} authorities promise in Could 2022 to offer victims with care and help has but to be forthcoming.
He mentioned the compensation bundle mooted by First Minister Humza Yousaf has but to occur.
There are 172 recognized victims however it’s feared there could also be many extra and they’re ready to study the phrases of reference for the inquiry.
Mr Kelly added: ‘That is our final likelihood to place it proper.’
A Scottish Authorities spokesman mentioned: ‘In August 2023, the due diligence assessment printed by NHS Tayside laid naked a few of the failings within the board’s response to issues over Mr Eljamel.
‘The assessment additionally included vital data not beforehand recognized to the Scottish Authorities which made clear issues weren’t acted upon with the urgency or rigour they deserved.
‘The institution of the general public inquiry is progressing at tempo, with the newly appointed chair, Lord Weir, main on the required preparations.’
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