Syringe used in a hotel: family vacation in Florida turned into a costly nightmare

A US Army veteran stepped on a used syringe in a hotel room and paid several thousand dollars for medical tests and medicines.

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James Riels of Colorado rested at the Hampton Inn in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., With his wife and daughter. In the room, he felt something sharp dig at his big toe. The traveler lifted his foot and saw a needle from a syringe, which had a turquoise liquid. Under the bed, Rils discovered the second needle, after which his wife contacted the rescue service.

The lawyer for the victim, John Phillips, confirmed that these were used syringe needles.

“Our main task now is to ensure that Rils receives funds to pay for treatment,” he explained.

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As Rills was told, blood tests may take more than a year. It is necessary to understand whether he has become infected with something or not. Visiting the hospital cost the tourist more than five thousand dollars, and prescription drugs had to pay 4,5 thousands of dollars.

Ryls noted that he has not yet received a response from the hotel insurance company. The hotel managers said they had begun an investigation into the incident.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• American tourists often face problems abroad. Sometimes situations turn out to be mysterious and frightening, as, for example, a series of deaths of holidaymakers in resorts in the Dominican Republic. Nathaniel Holmes, 63, and Cynthia Ann Day, 49, from Prince George County, Virginia, were found dead in a room at the Bahía Príncipe in the resort of Playa Nueva Romana, on the south-east coast of the country.
• Miranda Schaupp-Werner was found dead in a hotel Grand Bahía Príncipe in La Romana 25 May.
• Relatives of 51-year-old Yvette Monique Sport told that she went to the resort last June and stopped at the Bahia Principe Resort in Punta Cana. In the room she drank a drink from the minibar and died that night.
• Delaware Woman severely beaten and left to die at a resort in the Dominican Republic. Tammy Lawrence-Daily said she wants to share her story "in the hope that women will be more knowledgeable."
• She said that on the second night of her vacation in January at the Majestic Elegance Punta Cana resort, where she arrived with her husband and two friends, she went to the next building to have a snack. She was attacked. The woman's nose and arm are broken, she has partially lost her hearing.
• A woman from New York claims that because of a soda bottle filled with bleach, she’s was bleeding in the same resort in the Dominican Republic, where at least three American tourists died suddenly.
• 31 is a summer tourist from Russia Maria Cheremushkina passed away during the holidays Dominican Republic. The incident occurred on the night of June 1. Relatives learned that shortly before the incident, the girl complained of heartache, but the necessary help was not provided to her. For some reason, she was taken to the hospital by taxi, because the ambulance staff refused to call the hotel.
• Deer Creek High School Alumni (Oklahoma) flew out June 8 to the Dominican Republic and settled at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Punta Cana, where at least 2 Americans had previously died and several others had fallen ill. Soon, the adolescents began to feel unwell, and they could not establish a diagnosis.
• 18 June became aware of the death in the Dominican Republic of 55-year-old Joseph Allen from New Jersey. Him body 13 Jun found on the floor of the hotel room.
• 20 June became aware that 59-year-old Susan Simono passed away on June 19 in New Orleans after she was urgently hospitalized due to fluid in her lungs. Her death came in a week after she returned from her honeymoon in Punta Cana.
• 21 June family two dead in the Dominican Republic American tourists turned to Fox News when they heard news of nine other victims of the terrible resort. It turned out that 17 was a 2016-year-old resident of Pennsylvania, 69 of September of the year 18, and 2018 of april of 41, XNUMX-year-old from Kansas

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