Wednesday 6 July 2022 12:15 AM NHS: Dr Isyaka Mamman is jailed following botched procedure which killed ... trends now
An elderly doctor who killed a patient in a botched procedure after lying about his age to avoid retirement was jailed for three years for manslaughter yesterday.
Dr Isyaka Mamman, 85, who had pretended to be 11 years younger, bungled a bone marrow extraction so badly that Shahida Parveen bled to death.
Last night, a patient told of her anger that Mamman was allowed to continue practising after his real age came to light.
In 2015, Margaret Helliwell was left in agony during an identical biopsy by the haematologist, then 79, who shoved his knee into the grandmother’s back to force a needle into her hip with such pressure that the device bent.
Dr Isyaka Mamman, 85, pictured, had lied about his age to avoid retirement, Manchester Crown Court has heard
Mamman, pictured, was convicted of manslaughter following the death of Shahida Parveen at Royal Oldham Hospital
She complained, and says a consultant told her that Mamman should retire and would no longer be performing such biopsies. But that did not happen, and in 2018 he attempted to take a similar sample from Mrs Parveen, 48.
This time he plunged the needle in at the wrong point, puncturing the sac around her heart. As she died at Royal Oldham Hospital, her husband shouted: ‘He killed her!’
At Manchester Crown Court yesterday, Mrs Justice Yip said it was ‘hard to understand’ how Mamman had been allowed to carry on working as she gave him a sentence that – ironically – she said took into account his advancing age and ‘frail’ appearance.
Mrs Helliwell, 81, told of her horror at the missed opportunity to stop him.
She added: ‘He was pummelling away so hard that the needle bent. I was screaming in pain, I was being sick and felt dizzy.
‘I feel so sorry for the lady’s family. I am also angry that she went in for the same procedure as I did and she died. He shouldn’t have been allowed to continue practising because he had been caught lying.’
She said that when she read about Mrs Parveen’s death, ‘I just thought, “That could have been me”.’ But her terrifying experience was not even the only such incident of 2015.
That same year, a bone marrow biopsy by Mamman led to a patient suffering internal
