A doctor has been struck off after a botched operation at the Royal Oldham Hospital left a cancer patient unable to go to the toilet.

The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service heard the patient would have died without emergency corrective surgery after errors by Dr Yasser Adly Abdel Rahman, who was working as a locum general and colorectal surgeon at the hospital.

Patient A was admitted for an emergency operation in 2020. In the days that followed he reported increasing pain and continual vomiting. The tribunal heard the surgery formed "a closed loop" with the patient's internal organs, meaning the contents of his bowel were re-deposited back into his stomach.

In the weeks after surgery his pain got worse and his bowels would not open, while fluid had to be drained from his stomach through suction. The problems continued for another three weeks before another consultant took over his care and carried out a second emergency operation, which revealed the errors.

Patient A later died in May 2021, although the tribunal was not told the outcome of an inquest into his death.

The tribunal accepted Dr Rahman had faced "an extremely difficult procedure" because of the patient's complex medical history and a tumour in the small bowel area. But it concluded his clinical failings, both during the procedure and after it, were "at the very high end of the spectrum of seriousness".

Expert witness Mr C described the procedure as "at the extreme end of surgical error" and said "it is as bad as it gets for a consultant surgeon". He also said the procedure was "not compatible with life" and that Patient A would have died had consultant general surgeon Mr D not carried out corrective surgery.

The tribunal found Dr Rahman had not accepted responsibility for his actions and had instead sought to blame Mr D. It said he had criticised the experts, the Trust and the General Medical Council (GMC), which demonstrated "a marked lack of insight" in relation to the clinical allegations.

In response, Dr Rahman claimed the hospital was "pointing the finger of blame" at him, although no evidence was presented to support that. He accused staff testifying against him of "leading a witch hunt" and said he was being treated as "a scapegoat", adding: "Personally, I could've never imagined the GMC's process to be so ripe with blatant bias."

He said the actions of staff at the Royal Oldham Hospital "can only be described as malicious" and claimed the environment created by staff was "one of passing the blame".

The tribunal concluded Dr Rahman had "made significant surgical errors and failed" and had "shown no insight nor remediated his actions", which undermined public confidence and did not uphold proper professional standards. It decided a fully informed member of the public would not expect him to continue in unrestricted practice, and he was struck off immediately.