Nasreen Gibor (43) from Jerusalem has been hospitalized for two months in intensive care at Hadassah Ein Kerem in critical condition, after undergoing a liposuction process by Dr. Ahmad Badran, a general practitioner from the north. In recent months in hospitals due to complications caused to them in the liposuction procedure performed by Dr. Badran.
Despite a series of reports that flowed to the Ministry of Health, Dr. Badran continues to recruit new patients. Although the Ministry of Health closed one of its clinics in the Galilee landscape, and Dr. Badran moved to surgery in Ramallah, but according to this week's Instagram post, he continues to invite patients from the Arab sector With him in the branches in Bana, in Deir al-Assad and in the Galilee landscape.
According to the Ministry of Health, only a plastic surgeon, general surgeon or dermatologist is allowed to perform liposuction, but Dr. Badran is a general practitioner, and along with the disciplinary offense following the accumulation of complaints against him, there is also a suspicion of negligence.
Dr. Ahmad Badran, Photo: From Dr. Ahmad Badran's Instagram page
The Ministry of Health is conducting an investigation against him, and only on Monday this week was there a long meeting with the doctor and his lawyer, but at the same time they admit that they can not act when the surgeries are performed in Ramallah.
A source in the Ministry of Health stated that "there is a complex event here with many angles that has developed into several clinics and the Palestinian Authority.
It's a challenging case. '
"I almost lost my wife"
Nasreen reached out to Dr. Badran through Facebook posts and testimonials from her friends.
He told us that he has a center in Ramallah and that is where we did the surgery.
His friend did the anesthesia, "says Wissam Gibor, her husband." After the operation, Nasreen complained of pain, but a day later she was released and told that within a week the pain would go away. "
"On the third day it hurt more, and on the fourth day my wife almost died. I took her to Hadassah Ein Kerem. The professor told me that her condition was serious and that if I had delayed another hour she would have died."
Wissam explains that Dr. Badran “made holes in her gut.
Some of it had to be cut.
All her skin in her stomach was black.
Take out her skin and start putting on new skin. "
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Nasreen has already undergone at least ten surgeries.
According to Wissam, after Dr. Badran learned that his wife was hospitalized he acted suspiciously. “He called and wanted to bring me money and said he wanted to come check on her.
I told him: I want one thing from you, I do not want money and do not want to see you - either you go to jail or you leave the country and leave.
I have five daughters at home, one of them with autism and a one-year-old baby.
This case turned my life around and stopped my work.
We paid NIS 50,000 to a private doctor for liposuction surgery so that my wife would not wait in line, but it turned into hell. "
"This is the first time I see such a shocking complication of liposuction, which could have resulted in death," says Neta Adler, a plastic surgery specialist at Hadassah Ein Kerem who treated Nasrin. She came to us with extensive necrosis of the skin and subcutaneous tissue in the area where the liposuction and multiple perforations were made along the entire intestine.
It's a life - threatening situation.
In fact, all of her intestines were exposed.
The fact that she survived is due to the work of all the departments at Hadassah. "
Hadassah forwarded the report of the case to the Ministry of Health, and during the two months that Nasreen was hospitalized, two more cases arrived that needed treatment from Hadassah due to complications as a result of Dr. Badran's procedure.
"There was also a liposuction that got complicated and the patients needed blood transfusions. In total, there were three cases that arrived in a short time. We reported all the cases to the Ministry of Health."
"Mental trauma"
Samia (pseudonym), a mother of two small children from the North, suffered a vascular injury after undergoing liposuction with Dr. Badran. “I heard from my girlfriends who went to him and lost weight.
When I arrived at the clinic in Deir al-Assad, he said that he could not operate in Israel and that his instruments were in Ramallah.
"He explained to me that he was having surgery for a year in Israel and a year in Ramallah, and if I wanted to wait to have the surgery in Israel it would take time. I wanted to see quick results so I agreed.
"There was a stage where I told him that the security situation was not good and I did not want to go there and asked for the down payment I paid, but he reassured me that 'everything is fine, you will have no problem, it's a private hospital.' At the level of a hospital in the country, "she says.
After the treatment of liposuction from the abdomen and legs, and after returning home, Samia continued to feel unwell.
"My hemoglobin dropped significantly to 7, I felt an accelerated pulse. I went to Ziv Hospital in Safed, where we were diagnosed with a drop in blood pressure and hemoglobin due to vascular damage. At the hospital I was told he was not a plastic surgeon and had more cases of patients undergoing complications. He had a message that he was impersonating and he started threatening me. "
Samia adds that "mental trauma is a very difficult thing. When I was told he was not a specialist I just thought why I did it, I do not want to die. I do not understand how to give him permission to operate on people."
"Painful and terrible phenomenon"
The Plastic Surgery Association has accumulated seven complaints against Dr. Badran, all from the Arab sector, where he operates and advertises his services. The first complaint came about a patient hospitalized with an infection at Nahariya Hospital in September, following a liposuction procedure. At Haemek Hospital and two cases in Hadassah, so that there are at least seven different reports that came to the attention of "Israel Today", the Ministry of Health and the Association of Plastic Surgery.
Dr. Meir Cohen, Chairman of the Israeli Association of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery at the Medical Association: "This is a painful and horrible phenomenon. Every year dozens of men and women fall into the trap and risk liposuction with unnamed doctors who are not specialists outside the Israeli health system and are in real danger of death. "From a severe infection and often left with severe scars for life. Performing plastic surgery under general anesthesia outside the health system is just like Russian roulette."
Liposuction surgery is the second most common aesthetic procedure in Israel.
In 2021, about 7,000 liposuction surgeries were performed in Israel.
However, severe cases such as Nasrin failure are extremely rare, and over the years only two deaths have been reported in Israel as a result of this procedure.
Advocate Tami Ullman and Advocate Nader Dib, representing Dr. Badran, stated: Has expertise, however this list has never been published in Reshumot.
Dr. Badran was trained in Greece to perform liposuction operations and was authorized to operate the device at the request of the Ministry of Health. Dr. Badran did not perform any liposuction surgery in Ramallah, and all surgeries were performed by a team of experts in Ramallah.
"Most of the cases that came to the hospitals are as a result of infections that can happen in any surgical operation. We know that there are several general practitioners without expertise who have purchased the same device and they continue to perform liposuction surgeries, but the Ministry of Health is keeping an eye out."
The Ministry of Health stated that "the ministry conducted inspections at Dr. Badran's clinics.
Following the findings, the ministry ordered the closure of the clinic and the cessation of activities in the Galilee landscape.
The Ministry of Health recognizes that Dr. Badran relocated part of the liposuction activity to Ramallah. "Health regarding the quality of medical care provided by Dr. Badran and the steps to be taken have not yet been decided."
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