An elderly hospital doctor has been jailed for three years after he killed a patient during a 'routine' procedure, as a judge slammed 'failings in the system'. Shahida Parveen died aged 48 at the Royal Oldham hospital after Dr Isyaka Mamman carried out a bone marrow biopsy.
After failing to gain a sample in the conventional way via the hip bone, the doctor used a 'rare' and 'dangerous' procedure to carry out the procedure via the sternum, which Mrs Parveen had not consented to. Dr Mamman continued even as she 'screamed' in pain and her husband of 31 years 'begged' him to stop.
The conduct of Dr Mamman, now 85, had been called into question twice before following two serious incidents three years earlier. He had left a 64-year-old man permanently disabled, and a woman was left in considerable pain after Dr Mamman had carried out the same procedure on both patients.
