Family of Montreal woman stricken by flesh-eating disease slams hospital
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Relatives of a 16-year-old who contracted the so-called flesh-eating disease after giving birth at an east-end Montreal hospital are furious she was initially released despite her symptoms.
Melanie Belanger is now out of a medically-induced coma at the Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital, but doctors said she is still fighting for her life and they don't know yet whether they will have to amputate her legs.
Her stomach is still open because there isn't enough skin to close it.
Belanger was first admitted to the hospital on March 15 to give birth to a boy. Her family said she was feeling strong after the birth and was anxious to get home, but soon she began complaining of back and abdominal pain.
They said her skin was so sore that she would yell in pain if someone touched it.
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This just a horrible situation all around... but the hospital should
never have released her if she was as sick as her family is saying.
Just a very sad story. Hope she makes it.