In total, 510 plaintiffs are each seeking $10 million. The 204-page complaint alleges that despite “repeated reports and clear evidence” of prior misconduct by Perwaiz, who is from Pakistan and came to the US in the 1980s, at his own OBGYN practice, the hospital enabled him to perform unnecessary surgeries for nearly a decade.[snip]
She said that Perwaiz delivered four of her children, and induced labor prior to 39 weeks without a medical reason. “I just feel like the hospital needs to be held accountable. The doctor’s already locked up for it, but somebody else needs to be held accountable, which is the hospital, because they allowed him to practice there.”Perwaiz was reportedly granted privileges to operate at the Chesapeake Regional Medical Center, and the plaintiffs allege that the hospital ignored red flags in order to cash checks. The lawsuit names current and former Chesapeake Regional Medical Center executives as well as the center itself: current president and CEO James Reese Jackson, and his predecessors, Peter Francis Bastone and Wynn Lawton Dixon Jr.
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