- Man takes photo of homeless woman with both legs amputated after refusing treatment for cannibalism
- In an earlier video, the woman said no when the man took her to the hospital to check her condition and try to treat her.
- San Francisco’s homelessness and drug problems continue to escalate as authorities fail to implement policies that effectively stem these problems.
A homeless woman in San Francisco had to have her leg amputated just weeks after being filmed refusing treatment for a cannibal infection in her leg.
A woman caught on camera J.J. Smith Earlier last month, on the streets of San Francisco, she was revisited by a citizen journalist as the illness he begged her for treatment had taken its toll.
About seven weeks ago, on February 6th, Smith filmed the shocking first clip of a woman who refused medical help for a leg injury.
In a heartbreaking follow-up posted on March 30, the woman was in a wheelchair by a stump and apparently didn’t heed his advice.
“Update to a post I made on Feb 6th I seriously tried to take this lady to the hospital but she wanted to get high so I didn’t go and here are the results She lost both legs because she didn’t go,” he wrote on Twitter.
In the comments section of the post, Smith continues:
The woman has not commented on taking the medication, and it is unclear what caused the disease to destroy her leg.
In a February video, a wide-eyed woman who appears to be foaming at her mouth rejects a videographer’s offer to take her to the hospital to treat infections in both legs.
“Let me take you to the hospital,” he says.
“No, no, no,” she replies, trying to sit on a pile of dirty material.
“Your feet [sic] If you don’t fix it, it will disconnect,” says Smith.
“It will be fixed as I promise,” she insisted.
Details of the cause of the woman’s illness have not been shared.
However, San Francisco is known to be a hotbed of homelessness, and many of those living on the streets are battling serious illnesses, often exacerbated by drug use.
Some people with injuries to their limbs have been caused by xylazine, a US-approved veterinary tranquilizer for cattle and horses, which is now flooding the US illicit drug market.
Drug dealers cut down on everything from cocaine to heroin with powerful sedatives, but fentanyl in particular is rampant on the streets of San Francisco.
Patients have damaged blood vessels, and gaping wounds appear on their bodies. Others are unable to walk or have severe bone injuries that require amputation.
A nurse describes the wounds caused by xylazine as looking like something is “eating your flesh from the inside out.”
The number of homeless people in San Francisco was about 8,000 last February, the second-highest since 2005, according to official government counts every three years.
It’s almost certainly inflated since the latest tally.
Business owners in several areas of San Francisco have threatened to stop paying taxes if politicians don’t clean up the streets of not only human feces but also garbage and stop people from taking drugs in public. There is
Various liberal politicians and city leaders have attempted to implement a number of policies to curb the many problems created by the growing population of homeless and drug addicts.
One particular harm reduction policy that failed was last year’s opening of a tenderloin center aimed at alleviating the city’s drug and homeless crisis.
Costing taxpayers a whopping $22 million, it was a “safe place” for addicts to “get high without being robbed,” without fear of a fatal overdose.
Users were also intended to be directed to the help center, but in the first four months of operation only 18 of the over 23,000 people who were welcomed to the site were referred.
Overall, less than 1% of visits ended with “full compliance” to behavioral health programs.
Despite their efforts, more than 500 people in San Francisco will die from overdoses in 2022. In 2021, that number was 641.
Officials also hoped the site would provide a place to address the homeless crisis the city has faced over recent months and years.
Mayor Breed initially allocated just $10 million for the project, but it soon ballooned to more than double that estimate.
In total, the center provided assistance to about 400 people each day, according to the San Francisco Public Health Department.
Most of the people who used this site used it specifically for shelter and food.
The homeless crisis in SF is reinforced by the ongoing fentanyl crisis. Synthetic drugs are used by a significant portion of the city’s homeless population, embarking on the public drug stream and endangering teenagers and others in the city.
A synthetic opioid many times more potent than heroin, fentanyl is often mixed with cocaine and other stimulants and consumed unknowingly by recreational drug users.
After 70,000 deaths in the US from overdoses linked to synthetic opioids last year, public health officials continue to sound alarm about the drug’s highly potent nature.
Overdose deaths have skyrocketed over the past three years, a 50% increase from 52,000 in 2016 to 106,000 in 2021.
The White House believes it was largely due to fentanyl poisoning or overdose, and said the drugs were imported almost entirely from China via Mexico, with a handful of cartels bringing them across the border. ing.
Six of the 10 counterfeit prescription drugs tested by the DEA in 2022 contained fentanyl, with the “majority” coming from the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels.
For years, synthetic drugs have been used as a cheap and accessible alternative to heroin. But now it’s been carved with cocaine and MDMA and packed into pills.
