A shameless surgeon who was suspended over claims of botching his patients' surgeries has re-opened a new clinic in Libya.
Sam Eljamel was a neurosurgeon at NHS Tayside from 1995 until his suspension after dozens of complaints from patients. He is believed to have botched hundreds of ops over 18 years at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee. There are 172 patients with a grievance against him but there are suspicions there are more.
He removed himself from the General Medical Council’s register so he can't work in the UK but by doing so voluntarily, it freed him to work elsewhere in the world.
However, images of the professor have now appeared of him examining scans in his clinic in Liyba as former patients are warning new patients to not go near him.
These images appear on the Libyan hospital's website (Handout)Former musician and radio presenter Pat Kelly is a victim of the surgeon. and describes him as an "extremely dangerous man".
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Pat Kelly, from Dundee, told the Daily Record : “People over there should be extremely frightened of this man if he is going to be doing their operations. This is an extremely dangerous man. When he could do what he did to us and simply walk away as if he had done nothing wrong then these people could be in extreme danger.
“His behaviour is irrational and you just don’t know what he is doing or capable of doing and that’s the frightening thing in this. It could be years before people out there realise what he has done to them because they could be like me and just think the operation didn’t work.
"Who will these poor people complain to if it goes wrong? I just hope and pray he doesn’t do to them what he has done to us. The medical boards out there must know what this man has done in Britain.”
The images, seen by the Daily Record, appeared earlier this month for Al Nahada Hospital in Misrata, alongside details of his availability during Ramadan.
The online blurb beside the images describes Eljamel as “Professor Moftah Al-Jamal, Consultant in Neurosurgery, Spine, and Chronic Pain Surgery” and says he is “available during the holy month of Ramadan daily between 3-5pm and 11pm-12.30am except Friday”. The new spelling of Eljamel’s name is understood to be down to translation rather than any attempt to disguise his identity and, indeed, in one of the photos his degree from Liverpool University is shown on the wall.
Pat, who suffered botched surgery, added: “I am angry. The fact that he is still working and we are suffering badly in the UK and can’t work. He probably walked off with a golden pension.
“He is out there making a living and we are stuck here on a pittance with some people not earning, losing houses, marriages … It angers me terribly this can happen and no one is prepared to help or take responsibility. He has property here in Scotland but we are having to battle to get compensation from the government.
“This man is away, gone, there is nothing to be done so what is the next step for us? Who is going to take responsibility for us?”
Pat said it was important to find out when the Scottish Government was made aware of problems. He said: “I keep going back to Shona Robison in 2015 but my operation was in 2007 and Nicola Sturgeon was the health secretary. What did she know back then?”
Pat went into hospital to have discs shaved or removed in his spine and when the operation did not improve anything the former DJ thought he had just been unlucky. It was another eight years before he found that despite five hours in surgery, which left him fighting for life after a haemorrhage, Eljamel had never touched the spinal discs at all.
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Pat said: “If the police had taken us seriously back in 2015 they may have arrested this man, questioned him and taken away his passport but he just seemed to get away scot free from the UK. It was criminal what this man was doing.”
Pat added: “I hope he is suffering every day like we are. Was he mad or bad? We just don’t know. Hopefully there may be ways we can get him back but it depends on the will of the Scottish Government.”
The Mirror contacted the Scottish Government for comment.
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