A stroke patient who was rushed last year to an Orange County hospital that specializes in treating strokes suffered major brain damage after waiting nearly eight hours for surgery because the medical center did not have the proper equipment or a capable neurosurgeon, according to a lawsuit.

The suit, filed Monday, May 19, against Orange County Global Medical Center, alleges the Santa Ana hospital did not have the “endovascular equipment” necessary to treat a bleeding aneurysm and was on a “credit hold” by the vendor who supplies it. Additionally, the on-call neurosurgeon was a spine doctor incapable of treating patient Khusro Jhumra, 51, the suit alleged.

Jhumra’s wife, Maliha Siddiqui, had to call a doctor friend to help find a capable neurosurgeon with privileges at Orange County Glob

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