Man accuses private hospital of negligence after four-inch wood splinter not detected

Zitman George at his home

A Roxanne Burnham Gardens man says he ended up in intensive care for one week after a private medical institution failed to detect a four-inch piece of wood that was lodged in his foot.

Zitman George, 49, of Rasville, Roxanne Burnham Gardens, said he was bed-ridden after doctors at the Diamond Diagnostic Hospital managed to extract the piece of greenheart wood from his left foot after doctors at a private hospital misdiagnosed him.

George, a miner, had been cleaning his yard on August 4 when he gashed the sole of his foot. Twenty minutes later he was