Ranulfo Benitez-Morales is worried that he will soon lose his right leg because of what he describes as inadequate medical care at the Hays County Jail.
is worried that he will soon lose his right leg because of what he describes as inadequate medical care at the. Benitez-Morales was shot by Kyle police with a beanbag round – a projectile consisting of a mesh bag filled with lead shot – on Oct. 6, 2021, as they took him into custody for assaulting an officer and evading arrest. The round penetrated his calf six inches below the knee.
In the months that followed, the wound was very slow to close. Benitez-Morales's leg swelled to three times its normal size. He had fevers, urinated blood, and stopped eating at times. He told his sister,Medical staff at the jail gave Benitez-Morales Tylenol for the pain and jail administrators, after a month's delay, provided him with a cane. Doctors performed an ultrasound and found no issues. Benitez-Morales asked guards daily to bring nursing staff to clean the wound.
“This has been going on for too long. Sooner or later it’s going to reach my bone and then you know what’s going to happen. If it reaches my bone then my leg is gone. That’s what I’m scared about.”Benitez-Morales said that throughout his ordeal jail officials have been indifferent and sometimes openly hostile to his requests. Spokespersons for the jail have not responded to detailed questions and requests for comment.
After Benitez-Morales's original wound closed, he continued to have terrible pain, hot and cold sweats, and heat around the wound. The pain crescendoed after he'd been in jail for seven months, and a new hole opened in the side of his leg, two inches from the first. Again it disgorged pus and blood. A ring of blisters formed around it. He called his sister and begged her for help. She visited the jail in person and threatened to sue.
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