Online Reporter
IN August last year, an injured man checked into the emergency room in Patti, near the city of Messina in Sicily, Italy, with a fractured fibula.
But there were no splints for the cast in the hospital, so doctors immobilised his leg using a makeshift carboard plaster.
The injured person, a 30-year-old, had been involved in a road accident.
He had waited for five hours for an X-ray and the diagnosis of the fractured fibula.
The doctor then announced that the necessary materials were not available to put the leg in a cast.
Consequently, the patient had to choose to either go with what the doctor had at hand or turn down the proposed treatment regime.
The patient agreed to be immobilised and the man’s injured leg was wrapped with a cardboard box plaster.
The thirty-year-old’s father took a photo and posted it on the internet.
The injured man finally turned to a private clinic in Messina, paying two hundred euros, to be able to continue his entire treatment. — News Bulletin 247/L’Unione Sarda.it.
