ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Sanford mother says she will never be able to hold her newborn because an Orlando hospital performed a life-altering surgery and, she claims, the hospital refuses to explain why they left her as a multiple amputee.
The woman filed a complaint against Orlando Regional Healthcare Systems, she said, because they won't tell her exactly what happened. The hospital maintains the woman wants to know information that would violate other patients' rights.
Claudia Mejia gave birth eight and a half months ago at Orlando Regional South Seminole. She was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando where her arms and legs were amputated. She was told she had streptococcus, a flesh eating bacteria, and toxic shock syndrome, but no further explanation was given.
The hospital, in a letter, wrote that if she wanted to find out she would have to sue them."
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Are there any doctors on here that can shed any light on this? If she had streptococcus "prior" to entering the hpspital or giving birth surely that would have been noticed and explained to her. Why would she have to sue to get the information, because it would otherwise "violate" another patients rights, unless she contracted it while in the hospital. Can you contract streptococcus that quickly and have it be apparent? This is truely horrible, if they aren't at fault in any way why can't they give her an explaination?