The legless man, whose identity is being preserved so as not to be exposed in the future, was abandoned on the sidewalk under the scorching sun by employees of the Pedro II Municipal Hospital in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, where he was hospitalized. People walking along the hospital street in the Santa Cruz area, and seeing how the porters threw the patient to the ground, were outraged, went to the medical department to ask for an explanation and, having received no attention, condemned the sad abandonment to the press. .
The man remained lying on the sidewalk, in a diaper and with a probe, and shocked everyone who saw him on the sidewalk, from where he would not have had the slightest opportunity to get out alone. After a show of outrage from the public, the Pedro II Municipal Hospital returned and put the patient back into bed, later claiming to have fired the staff who had left the patient in the middle of the street.
According to the information received, since neither the hospital nor the municipal health secretariat of Rio de Janeiro cooperated, the man was left in the infirmary by an evangelical pastor who runs a shelter for the needy in the city. Buzios, 176 km from Rio de Janeiro, and after hospitalization and treatment deemed necessary, he was discharged. According to hospital management, a patient who, in the opinion of the department, is acting rebellious and refuses to provide a family member’s phone number, will ask to be left on the street, as he will be picked up, which did not happen. .
Passers-by bought food and tried to help the stranger, as well as street vendors, impressed by the drama of this man, who, despite his history of relations with the hospital and possible rebellion, could not be left alone without any help. sidewalk support. To people who tried to help him, he denied asking to be released from the hospital and stated that he felt like “garbage”.