A three -year -old mother had to have all four limbs amputated after doctors had her slow to diagnose her with infection after a routine operation.
Priscilla Dray suffered from septic shock after she went to Pellegrin University Hospital in Bordeaux in 2011 for an abortion.
She said she had arrived in 'great form', but 'the left was to die' when doctors refused her antibiotics for the infection.
A month after her abortion, the former shopkeeper, then 36, necrosis and 'was slaughtered', with both legs, her right forearm and her left hand amputated.
Two hospital doctors appeared today for the Bordeaux Criminal Court, sued for involuntary injuries with disability.
More than 13 years ago that Mrs. Dray's life was reversed, the courts will try to establish the responsibilities of each party that lead to its malformation.
Mrs. Dray went to the hospital to have an abortion in July 2011. She had removed four limbs by August, which suffered from Sepsis and Necrosis
Mrs. Dray has claimed that her temperature rose to 39.6 ° C the day after the operation, so she went to the emergency department of the University Hospital.
Her IUD was removed and a cotton swab before a trainee reportedly concluded that she probably suffered from endometriosis.
Under advice, Mrs. Dray asked for antibiotics, but was reportedly refused by the doctor's service. She was sent home instead.
The next day, on July 24, 2011, she went to a doctor in Cap Ferret, who suspected blood distribution.
She was then urgently referred to the hospital with a note to pass on to emergency doctors.
The letter was not forwarded by the hospital staff, because Mrs. Dray struggled to breathe and presented frozen hands and feet, France 3 reports.
The 'carnivorous bacteria' had already begun to attack her limbs, which required amputation.
'I trusted [them] And this is the state in which they put me, “she said on the M6 ​​program -Zone Interdite. “They killed me and normally I should have died.”
According to France3, her chance of survival was estimated at around five percent in the night of July 24, when she was taken back to the hospital.
In just over a week she developed necrosis, coupled with the septic shock and was transferred to the intensive care for serious burns.
Towards the end of August, they made the difficult decision to ampute.
She underwent a valuable hand transplant in the US at their own expense, which means that she spent 'many months' back in the hospital, reports France3.
Mrs. Dray, who had chosen to have an abortion after she had only recently had her third child, revealed that she could not see her newborn three months after the operation.
“They removed all those moments of happiness,” she said. “I don't think there is something worse.”
The hospital would eventually get a fine of 300,000 euros on the case, and three people were charged, Femme Actuelle reported in 2023.
A gynecologist was sued because he had not immediately prescribed antibiotics.
In 2018, Mrs. Dray courageously shared her difficulties to adapt to her condition.
“Someone helps me at home every day,” she told Sud Ouest.
'For every daily task you must be able to adapt and organize yourself.
'The hardest thing is to get to terms and tell yourself that there are things that you can no longer do. It's difficult. '
“It's my three children who give me this energy,” she said, asked how she overcomes the challenges of daily life.
'I would not have had the same power without them. And I still live in the hope of repairing myself. I depend on progress in medicine and technology. '
Since then she needs more than 50 operations to implant metal bars in her shin to repair prostheses.
She underwent a valuable hand transplant in the US at their own expense, which means that she spent 'many months' back in the hospital, reports France3.
A photo taken on January 25, 2020 shows a general picture of the Pellegrin University Hospital (CHU) in Bordeaux
Yet Mrs. Dray has questions about what happened to her at those crucial moments in July 2011.
“To this day, I still don't understand why I am lagging behind to die in that pregnancy department,” she told Pourquoi Docteur in 2017.
Sepsis is a life -threatening infection that is difficult to recognize in some patients, according to the NHS.
It happens when the immune system reacts aggressively to an infection and the body's own tissues and organs starts to damage.
Without good treatment, this can lead to organ failure, tissue damage and death.
