More than 600 women are suing Chesapeake Regional Medical Center in connection to unnecessary and harmful gynecological surgeries performed by convicted former doctor Javaid Perwaiz, with the lawsuit now seeking more than $6 billion in damages.
The number of plaintiffs has grown by more than 100 women since the original filing last week, which included about 500 victims.
Perwaiz has been serving a 59-year federal prison sentence since 2021 for healthcare fraud tied to irreversible hysterectomies, improper sterilizations, and other medically unnecessary surgeries performed on hundreds of women at Chesapeake Regional Medical Center…