A 27-year-old French man, called Alexandre, published a video in which he made allegations against a Jordanian doctor who scammed him after suffering from an ankle sprain in Amman.

He called the medical team involved in the surgery a “mafia” who are responsible for allowing these “extremely dangerous practices, for the willingness to make money.”

“I would like to share a story that happened to me in Amman, Jordan, where I was victim of a medical scam and abuse from a doctor who performed an unnecessary surgery for a simple ankle sprain, for a cost of JD 15,000,” he said at the beginning of his video.

Alexandre had gone to a hospital’s ER and someone, whom he thought was a doctor who works at the hospital, directed him to a clinic outside of the hospital.

“He insisted that the only way to restore full mobility of my ankle is through a surgery. Naively I believed him when he said he was recommended from the US embassy and that he had great studies and medical experience,” the patient recalled.

Alexandre said that his insurance paid JD 15,000 (€12,159) for the surgery, called Brostrom Repair, which lasted for 40 minutes.

The patient said that “putting aside that this surgery is never recommended for a first ankle sprain, [he] learned that it never costs more than €2,000 - €3,000 in Spain or in France.”

He added that after the surgery he panicked and visited five doctors in Europe and, according to him, they all came to the same conclusion which is that he had had a minor ankle sprain, Grade II, which “should never be treated with a surgery.”

Alexandre then made a shocking allegation.

He said that although he has no evidence for what he was about to say because there were no cameras in the operating room but if one compares the first MRI of his ankle, which was taken on the day of the injury, with the second one taken while he was under anesthesia, then -according to doctors from both Jordan and Europe- the only way to go from the first MRI to the second one is by “opening the ankle, cutting the two ligaments, dislocating the ankle bone to ‘prove’ to my insurance and other doctors, that the surgery was necessary.”

“If this is true, then it means that this so-called doctor, as well as the team working with him have taken full advantage of my sleeping body cutting my ligaments and inserting three anchors as well as other surgical material in my foot, which, as you can imagine, have greatly affected my mobility until today,” Alexandre said.

“After the surgery, the treatment from [the doctor] was terrible. Telling me not to clean the wound which made me stay in the hospital for a week taking antibiotics.”

“He also advised and I quote “to take Xanax and Antidepressants” when I was asking him for help as my ankle was not healing correctly.”

Alexandre said that he confronted the doctor with his suspicion and due to the rising tension between the two, the doctor sued Alexandre for slander, insult and threats.

“For the record, I even spent an evening in a jail at the Abdali Police Station and I am currently under judiciary prosecution at the criminal court in Amman, and have to pay him an indemnisation,” he said in the video.

He complained that although he did more procedures after the first one, he still has limited range of motion in his ankle. In addition to more issues that were detected in his knee and back due to the ‘changed structure of his foot.’

He added that he hopes others will learn from his story and this video will shed some light on this “network of medical scammers working hand in hand with hospitals, private clinics, x-ray labs who all receive a part of the cake from unnecessary surgery fees.”

In turn, the media spokesperson for the Board of Directors at the Jordan Medical Association (JMA), Dr. Maysam Akroush, called on doctors and citizens not to circulate the video accusing a Jordanian doctor of wrong and unprofessional medical procedures.

Dr. Akroush said, "The information mentioned in this video is unconfirmed and appears malicious for everyone who knows the foundations and principles of medicine."

She noted that the circulation of this video harms the reputation of Jordanian medicine and medical tourism, which has become a source of national income for all tourism and service sectors in the country.

She lastly indicated that the Ministry of Health launched investigations into the incident.