Teen Faces Amputation Risk After Mismanaged Leg Fracture at French Clinic

Suffering from a double fracture in his left leg, Ryad was admitted to the Reims-Bezannes polyclinic, but left with a simple temporary cast and painkillers. His mother, Nadia, tells BFMTV that the doctors asked for her son to fast in preparation for an operation the next day. "Except that the next morning, no call, nothing! [...] I call them back and they tell me that there is no one by that name and that there is apparently no scheduled surgery," continues the boy’s mother.

Worried, she takes her son, whose condition is deteriorating, to the Reims University Hospital where "the doctors note the seriousness of the situation." "They open the cast, and see skin that has macerated for three days: blisters, pus, blood," the boy’s mother relates. "Ryad’s fracture has become infected under the cast" and now "he risks amputation" (the young man "is for the moment in a stable condition"), the doctors tell her. A shock for Nadia who cries out her incomprehension. For now, she is waiting for answers from the polyclinic.