Athlete Loses Leg in Subway Fall – IMSS Negligence?

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He October 24, 2023the life of Fátima Neri He suffered a turn. The then prominent arc -shooting athlete, national and international medalist, He was heading to his work, and a Sudden change in the direction of the Electric Stairs at the station Metro Polanco He caused serious injuries to one of his legs.

According to the archera’s story, around 20 people fell and after making a kind of lever, his left knee was destroyed: “A minute before was a conventional person and a minute later I became someone with disabilities”He said in an interview with Image, who today helps a walk to walk.

Fatima recalled that an element of Civil defense He helped and accommodated the bone that was out of place: he gave him a palette stick to bite him and improvised a tourniquet.

From that moment on, he started a viacrucis that almost two years away has not finished and the exatleta demands justice and that the Metro He takes care of all the medical expenses that he has had to face.

She was transferred to the San Ángel Inn hospital and one day after the accident they operated, but over time and therapies the discomfort did not disappear, so that the “successful” result that they sold at the beginning was not real, because their ligaments were still fragmented and its knee retained synovial liquid.

The doctors minimized the ailments of Fatima and told him that he suffered a “tendonitis”, refusing to perform a magnetic resonance to have a more accurate diagnosis, while the representatives of the insurer linked to the subway tried to make him sign some documents to demarcate his responsibility.

Amid despair and finding another alternative, he went to IMSS to try to identify the type of infection he had and, he said, they only hurt her because resident doctors did not know how to extract her blood, and although the dessert told her that she needed a new intervention, there they could not carry it out by not having space available.

Today Fatima Neri faces a high -risk scenario, because in case the infection reaches the bone could cause gangrene and would have to amputate her leg.

Far away was the dream of the archera for representing Mexico in an Olympic Games; Today, at 26, his greatest yearning is not to lose his limb.

Aiko Tanaka

Aiko Tanaka is a combat sports journalist and general sports reporter at Archysport. A former competitive judoka who represented Japan at the Asian Games, Aiko brings firsthand athletic experience to her coverage of judo, martial arts, and Olympic sports. Beyond combat sports, Aiko covers breaking sports news, major international events, and the stories that cut across disciplines — from doping scandals to governance issues to the business side of global sport. She is passionate about elevating the profile of underrepresented sports and athletes.

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