Alessandra dos Santos Silva, 35, a passista at the Academicos do Grande Rio school, was admitted to Hospital da Mulher Heloneida Studart in Rio de Janeiro in February after scans last August found the growths in her uterus. 

But complications from the surgery meant that she needed a total hysterectomy – and then doctors decided they couldn’t save her arm, which had become necrotic.

After the amputation, Ms Silva was released from hospital but an appointment a few days later raised serious concerns about her stitches. The dancer was forced to approach several hospitals before she was admitted. 

The series of failures is being investigated by the Rio de Janeiro Health Department and the Civil Police and an inquiry will be held into what happened at the Heloneida Studart Women’s Hospital.

The dancer was admitted to the Heloneida Studart Women’s Hostpial for her initial surgery for uterine fibroids on February 3, g1 reported. 

She was operated on in the morning but later that evening doctors discovered a haemorrhage and it was decided she would need a total hysterectomy. 

Family members visiting the dancer realised that her hand and legs, which were bandaged, were cold, and that her fingers had darkened. 

On February 6, her family was told that she needed to be transferred to the State Institute of Cardiology Aloysio de Castro (Iecac), in Botafogo. Family members say by that point, the intubated Ms Silva’s arm was practically black. 

But efforts by doctors there to save her dying limb failed and on February 10 her family was told that she would die without amputation. Ms Silva’s kidneys and liver were failing. 

When Ms Silva woke up, she did not know that her arm had been amputated  

She was released on February 15 but when she returned a few weeks later, doctors were very concerned about the condition of her stitches. 

Ms Silva was readmitted to hospital on March 4 and would stay for a month before finally being healthy enough to be discharged. 

The dancer, who has been engaged for 11 years, said she dreamed of having children. 

She doesn’t know how she is going to be able to make a living, either dancing or working in beauty salons with one hand. 

‘I want those responsible to pay, for the hospital to take responsibility, because they managed to end my life. They destroyed my work, my career, my dream… everything,’ the passista said. 

Her family say she’s only alive thanks to the tireless help of her friends, who fought to get her back into hospital. 

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He was operating a plastic bags and bowls manufacturing machine when his arm got stuck into it, causing the sharp blades of the equipment to severe his arm.

He is currently on admission at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.

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This is the second reported factory accident at Anwiankwanta this year.

In May, Mynewsgh.com reported a similar incident in which a machine operator was grinded to death at Anwiankwanta.

The owner of the Chinese plastic manufacturing company fled after his employee got grinded to death at the factory.

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Youth of the town threatened to burn down the factory after the incident, but for the timely intervention of the police, the situation would have been bloody.

The deceased was dragged into a mechanical grinding machine when he attempted to remove a material that had stuck inside it with his bare hands.

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The deceased, 22-year old Francis Kwame Adu’s body got dismembered at the time it was managed to be removed from the machine.

Safety at the many mushrooming factories at Anwiankwanta, managed by Chinese nationals is said to be very minimal.

Source: mynewsgh.com

Father of the girl, Kwadwo Sakyi who narrated the incident said his daughter is currently battling for her life at the Obuasi Government Hospital.

He said the girl had followed some friends to cook on a farm where a fight ensued between her and the young man over bathroom slippers (chalewote) that reportedly belonged to the boy but had been worn by the girl.

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According to Mr Kwadwo Sakyi, the brawl resulted in the boy sustaining some slight injuries, which then caused him to vow to retaliate.

“So after they had finished eating and my daughter was washing the bowls, he took a machete and hacked off her left arm and bolted; the others also left her in the pool of blood and run away”, he narrated.

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“So when she was subsequently rushed to the hospital when she managed to walk home, the doctors said nothing could be done to salvage the situation”.

The boy has since been arrested and granted bail and facing prosecution.

Source: Mynewsgh

Shamika Burrage survived a near-fatal car accident two years ago, but not without losing something pretty important: her left ear.

Plastic surgeons harvested cartilage from Burrage’s ribs to create a new ear and then grew it under the skin of her forearm. Then the doctors at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso successfully transplanted the ear from her arm to her head.