Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on the investigation into Great Ormond Street Hospital

Great Ormond Street Hospital in London has launched an urgent review of 721 cases that were treated by a former surgeon.

The hospital has revealed multiple children had come to severe harm under the care of Yaser Jabbar, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon.

UK correspondent Gavin Grey says it's alleged Jabbar conducted inappropriate procedures on these children - causing permanent damage in some. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kevin Gray. Are UK correspondents with us? Now, Hey, Kevin,
Hi there, Kevin. What's going on with the children's hospital?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, deeply worrying. The internationally famous Great Ormond Street Hospital
is conducting an urgent review in the cases of more
than seven hundred patients. Now, as I said, it's internationally
famous for its work in treating very, very sick children.
But at the moment, these seven hundred patients that they're
looking at are all children that have come under the

(00:28):
care of a consultant orthopedic surgeon called Yassah Jabbar. Now
he's not working in the UK at the moment. He's
working its thought in Dubai. But for a number of
years he was working at Great Ormond Street Hospital and
it's alleged there that he conducted inappropriate operations on children
but also carried them out poorly. Those are the allegations.

(00:52):
He so far has not made any comment about this,
isn't contacting journalists responding to their cause, though he is
due to speak at a major conference in the Middle
East quite soon, so it'll be interesting to see if
he actually appears. So so far, they've looked at thirty
nine cases and they've said twenty two children had come

(01:13):
to some degree of harm. What does that mean? Well,
in some instances children have had nerve and muscle damage,
and according to a medical negligence solicitor, one client has
had to undergo an amputation of his lower limb. They
say they have clients with permanent deformities and those who
have undergone unnecessary operations. In fact, they didn't even need

(01:37):
the operation that was later conducted. So very very concerning allegations.
Of course, great Ormond Street Hospital relies heavily on donations
as well, so this is very very serious haunt.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Hey, how do you pronounce this Chinese car giant's name?

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, so Sherry is the name of the kiny Chinese.
It looks like cherry, doesn't it. But apparently Sherrif is
looking at investing in the UK now. It is already
preparing to build cars in Spain, and its boss says
it's looking to take a localized approach to the European
market and said it was a matter of time before
the company made a final decision on the UK. Now.

(02:17):
The company's exports are said by critics to benefit from
unfair subsidies. As you know, this huge allegation that Chinese
government and the Chinese state is propping up its car
industry to flog its cars abroad for much cheaper and
undercutting those of other brands. But Sherry was set up

(02:38):
in nineteen ninety seven. It's one of China's largest car companies,
already the biggest exporter of vehicles from China, but it
has very ambitious to plans to go further. The problem,
of course is it is that much of the electric
cars from China are now under huge, huge tariffs from

(02:59):
the EU US. But if you build them in the EU,
you build them in the UK, then you can escape
from much of those tariffs. So that's possibly why they're
looking at the UK.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
So not all of them, given just some of the tariffs,
they wouldn't they wouldn't be pinned with.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
My understanding is if it's made in the UK, it's
made in the EU and sold within the EU, and
most of the car parts are manufacturing in the EU.
I told you it was complicated, then they would escape
all of those. But if they import a lot of
car parts then build them, it's slightly different.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
I see. Okay, thank you for explaining that. Now listen,
what are we doing. Why have we got great white
sharks in Ireland and Britain.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well, we think we have, but we don't know, and
that's why a big survey is being conducted by a
US nonprofit research organization. We do know that there are
a small endangered population of great white sharks and they
are off the Bay of Biscay and off in the

(04:03):
Mediterranean as well, it is believed. But these are endangered
and they are being encouraged by some who think this
is a great environmental thing. I'm not quite so confident myself,
but the question is have they come up as far
as Britain and Ireland. Well, fishermen are reporting seeing great
white sharks in the waters of Britain and Ireland, and

(04:26):
it's interesting. Island already hosts forty different shark species, like
the basking shark, Paul Beagle a shark. But yeah, the
fishermen off Galway in particular reporting that they have seen
the sighting of a deadly great white shark. Sadly, for
those that want this to happen, online sleuths discovered that
a video that had been posted was in fact actually

(04:49):
shot in Australia and not off the coast of Ireland,
but around one hundred UK Great White sightings were investigated
who found that a dozen remained credible. So that's what
they're looking at to see if they've made their way
this far north.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Hey, thank you, Gavin, appreciate it. Gavin gray a UK,
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Speaker 2 (05:08):
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