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Nine-Piece Severe Heel Fracture Successfully

Treated at Saudi German Hospital Makkah,

Enabling Patient to Walk

25/01/2024

24 January 2024- Doctors at the Saudi German Hospital Makkah successfully treated a patient who regained
his ability to walk after a fall from a height, which shattered his heel bone into nine fragments.

Typically, eight out of 10 patients with this kind of injury do not fully recover.
The patient, while vacationing at an archaeological site, slipped from a high point. He was initially taken to a

nearby hospital, where doctors placed a plaster cast on his suspected fracture.
Upon returning to Jeddah, he sought additional medical attention at another hospital. Unfortunately, the

doctors there misdiagnosed his injury, dismissing the fracture and advising him to keep the plaster cast on.
This incorrect treatment worsened his condition.

The patient's mother persuaded him to seek a second opinion at Saudi German Hospital Makkah the
advanced diagnostic capabilities of its doctors.

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