A doctor who performed a wrong procedure that resulted in the death of a woman is jailed for three years.
Dr. Isyaka Mamman, believed to be 85, had already been suspended for lying about his age and his colleagues thought he should retire after damaging similar procedures before the fatal incident.
He used an incorrect needle on Shahida Parveen, 48, and punctured her pericardium, which contains her heart, causing deadly internal bleeding.
During a bone marrow procedure on the mother of three children, Mamman had tried to extract a sample from Parveen’s sternum instead of grabbing it from the hip, where it is usually taken.
Parveen had attended Royal Oldham Hospital on September 3, 2018 to give a bone marrow sample. It should have been a routine procedure and was observed by her husband, Khizar Mahmood, she told the Manchester Crown Court.
She lost consciousness as soon as she put the needle in, while her husband ran out of the room shouting, “He killed her. I told him to stop three times and he didn’t listen to me. He killed her. ”A cardiac arrest team arrived, but Parveen’s death was confirmed later that day.
Mamman had once been suspended by a medical watchdog for lying about his age and had been fired but then re-hired at Royal Oldham Hospital, where he was involved in several incidents before the fatal appointment.
In 2015 he performed two bone marrow procedures that caused distress or harm to patients. One patient filed a formal complaint at Oldham Hospital saying Mamman had used “excessive force” during a bone marrow biopsy.
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Although the patient was assured that Mamman would get into light tasks in the future, he went on to perform another bone marrow procedure the same year he inserted the needle into the wrong place and left a patient permanently disabled.
Saying the sentence, Judge Yip criticized both Mamman and the trust of the hospital that employed him, saying there is “a worrying background” in the case.
He said: “It’s hard to understand why these incidents didn’t lead to your retirement. It’s also hard to see why the trust didn’t do more and why you were allowed to keep working. Unfortunately, there were failures. in the system “.
Dr Chris Brookes, the deputy executive director of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation, which now runs Royal Oldham Hospital, reiterated an apology. The trust has admitted liability in relation to a civil lawsuit filed by the family.
Mamman’s true age, who qualified as a doctor in Nigeria in 1965 and started working in the UK in 1991, had been a source of controversy, he told the court as his birthplace in rural Nigeria it did not have a formal birth registration system.