Urquhart was an army paratrooper who became a paraplegic after a training accident in 1993. In 2016, Al Muderis amputated both of the former soldier’s legs and performed an osseointegration – a procedure where a titanium rod is inserted into the bone of residual limbs – in an effort to allow him to walk again. The surgeon completed the procedure despite objections from pain specialist Dr Andrew Paterson, who predicted the surgery would be unsuccessful.
When questioned about Urquhart’s experience, Al Muderis told this masthead last month maggots were common among osseointegration patients. Later, his media representative posted on a social media patient support group and asked how many people had experienced maggots. Former paratrooper Mark Urquhart was left in excruciating pain after an operation by Munjed Al Muderis.“The quality of life has improved, the mobility has improved, but it comes at a risk with complications, obviously. But even the patients with complications are still satisfied,” he said.
In another leaked text message from 2018, Lu told Hernandez there were “lots of risks popping up in the business”. “His reported complications do not match what I see in patients,” Geffen said. “The regulator needs to complete a full and thorough investigation.”