59-year-old
Nigerian Senior Surgeon, Dr. Lawal Haruna, who reportedly removed a woman’s
ovary accidentally instead of her appendix has been struck off after being
branded a ‘danger to patients'.
He allegedly
botched up three operations over the course of two years including removing a
woman’s ovary because he said the appendix and fallopian tubes were similar
‘worm-like structures’ in the same area.
The unnamed
woman, known as Patient B, was treated by him when she was admitted for
abdominal pain while he was working for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust in
Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
During the
operation, one of her ovaries was removed leaving her appendix – which was
causing her great pain – in situ.
A tribunal
heard how it was lucky she was not of child-bearing age as it could have
affected her fertility.
Dr. Haruna
botched up two further operations mistaking a lump of fat for an appendix in
one case and a skin tag for a harmful lump in another.
Colleagues
described the operations as poorly executed and ‘never events’.
The surgeon,
who represented himself, told the Manchester hearing he had ‘poor vision’ at
the time he carried out the surgery and claimed it would be ‘harsh’ to strike
him off. But at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service a disciplinary panel
found him guilty of misconduct and banned him from treating patients.
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