The Princess Margaret Hospital (Nassau, Bahamas) is making international headlines as a Minnesota resident who was treated in January shared his horrific experience with Fox9 KMSP (Minneapolis-St. Paul).
According to Fox9, Jake Beiersdorf of Bloomington, Minnesota, was visiting Paradise Island in January 2016 and working the annual poker tournament held there. Jake had worked the tournament in previous years and always enjoyed his time on the islands. This year, however, while helping his mother Shelly Thew, who was also working the tournament, Jake began to experience what was described as sever pains in his lower right abdomen. Emergency personel was called and Jake was rushed by ambulence to PMH, the public hospital that services New Providence (Nassau) and Paradise Island, as well as emergency flights from other family islands.
Once in the emergency room, it is reported that Jake waited 14 hours before being served and was told he'd suffered a ruptured appendix and needed immediate surgery. It was after the surgery that Jake's true horror began. According to an interview conducted with Fox9, Jake awoke to find a foot long incision from his breastbone down to his groin that had been crudely stitched with approximately 12-13 staples where reportedly 35-45 staples should have been used.
After days in hospital, a check up that included his bandages being changed in a makeshift dressing room, and 5 days in his hotel room which was perceived as more sanitary than the hospital ward, Jake, his mother, and a friend who had flown in to assist during this medical emergency were able to fly back to the US. During the trip, Jake reportedly complained that he felt his "insides" would drop out at any moment and as this horrific tale continues we find he had every reason to feel that way.
As soon as they landed in Minnesota, his father met the group at the airport and took Jake immediately to an emergency room at the local hospital where tragedy became pure horror. Doctors in Minnesota were not only dismayed by the terrible incision and stitching but upon opening Jake's abdominal cavity found that his appendix was never ruptured or removed but was rather intact, albeit out of place. They also discovered that Jake had only received epidermal stitches meaning his fat and muscle layers were never sewn back together. Watch Jake's account of this terrific ordeal in the Fox9 interview below.
Video: Fox9.com
