Placenta tissue saved this man’s leg from amputation. How can more people benefit? – CTV

Dec. 12, 2024

Placenta tissue saved Ron Williams’ leg from being amputated below the knee.

Williams, a 64-year-old Toronto screenwriter, was packing for a move in March 2020 when a wine glass shattered on the floor.

As a longtime diabetic with neuropathy, Williams says he didn’t feel a tiny shard pierce his skin.

Several weeks later, his foot was swelling and hurt a lot — the small piece of glass had created a deep wound that got infected.

“It started rotting and decaying,” he says, grimacing at the memory.

He was bedridden for six months and treated at Sinai Health’s Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital, but the wound did not heal.

He says that if the infection persisted, his leg would have had to be amputated.