A mother-of-three had to have all four limbs amputated after doctors were slow to diagnose her with infection following a routine operation.
Frenchwoman Priscilla Dray suffered from septic shock after she went to the Pellegrin University Hospital in Bordeaux for an abortion in 2011.
She said that she had arrived in ‘great shape’ but was ‘left to die’ when doctors refused her antibiotics for the infection.
A month after her abortion, the former shopkeeper, then 36, suffered necrosis and ‘was massacred’, having both legs, her right forearm and her left hand amputated.
Two hospital doctors appeared before the Bordeaux Criminal Court today, indicted for involuntary injuries with incapacity.
More than 13 years since Ms Dray’s life was upturned, the courts will try to establish the responsibilities of each party leading to her disfigurement.
Ms Dray has claimed that her temperature soared to 39.6C the day after the operation, prompting her to head to the university hospital emergency room.
Her IUD was removed and a swab taken before an intern allegedly concluded she was likely suffering from endometriosis.
Under advice, Ms Dray requested antibiotics but was allegedly refused by the doctor on duty. She was, instead, sent home.
The next day, on July 24, 2011, she went to see a GP in Cap Ferret, who suspected septicemia.
She was then urgently referred back to hospital with a note to pass on to emergency doctors.
The note was not forwarded by the hospital staff as Ms Dray struggled to breathe and presented with frozen hands and feet, France3 reports.
The ‘flesh-eating bacteria’ had already started to attack her limbs, requiring amputation.
