Florian Barreiros, a 13-year-old teenager is not ready to forget the day of Monday, August 3. During a MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) performed at the University Hospital of Amiens, the young boy with Down’s syndrome lost his thumb by burns. A sensor forgotten on his finger by the medical team would have melted the thumb to the bone due to the magnetic field.
For their part, the parents of the teenager filed a complaint with the prosecutor of Amiens, to obtain compensation from the hospital. Questioned by the daily Ouest-France, Florian’s mother castigates an intolerable oversight: “The stretcher bearer took Florian and almost took the instructor on board. I helped him unplug it! I told him he left the sensor behind. He said they (at the MRI) were going to plug it back in downstairs. I should have taken it off, ”she says. Because the staff responsible for MRI scans did not do it on time. Under anesthetic and relaxant, the young boy did not show up early enough to save his thumb. “My child cried out in pain. He underwent real torture ”, criticizes Florian’s mother in the columns of Courrier Picard. ” Anybody [du service de] the MRI only saw what was happening besides forgetting the metal sensor. He destroyed my son’s thumb during the exam. I can’t digest it. I found Florian screaming in the recovery room hours after the accident. No one came to get me. “
Placed on an infusion of painkillers, Florian, also hospitalized for a sick pancreas, is now awaiting a thumb transplant.
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