ON APRIL 3, 2016 Ryan King was rushed to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) after a gunshot shattered the bone in his right leg.
When he awoke on April 4 after emergency surgery he found himself battling excruciating pain from a wound in his left leg – a serious puncture that was not there when he was admitted.
When the 44-year-old resident of Hutson Alley, Reed Street in Bridgetown inquired about this second injury he said he was told by a doctor the operating table collapsed as soon as they completed the procedure and a piece from the broken equipment punctured his leg.
That equipment failure, he said, was also given by the doctor as the reason for the headache he was suffering and the soft tissue damage to the back of his head and upper back, which struck the floor during the fall, while medical staff held on to the right leg that had just been operated on to prevent further damage. (RRM)
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