You should never work in construction under the influence of alcohol
A siren sounds. The ambulance of the local health station takes an injured person to the emergency room of the Diospi Suyana Hospital. The 53-year-old patient – let’s call him Juan Quispe – is conscious and that borders on a miracle. A few minutes earlier he left the 3rd floor (corresponds to the 4th floor in North and South America) plunged into the depths. He landed on a pile of sand in front of the construction site and was thus lucky in his misfortune. To what extent his alcohol level was responsible for this accident remains a speculation for everyone.
The result: three broken ribs and a shattered right thigh.
Treatment in the emergency room and X-ray department runs like Swiss clockwork according to protocol. That very night, traumatologist Dr. Fritz Meiswinkel stabilizes the open fracture with an external fixator and performs a thorough wound cleansing. If there is no infection of the femur, then the definitive treatment of the fracture with a metal implant follows in the next few days.
A jump from the ten-meter board in the swimming pool usually ends well. A fall from the same height from a ruined building normally ends fatally.
