From FoxNews, “Hospital Sued for Dumping Homeless Paraplegic Man in Los Angeles Gutter:”

Civil rights activists sued a hospital Thursday for releasing a paraplegic, mentally ill man who was found crawling in a Skid Row gutter in what the lawsuit describes as an “obscene” case of homeless dumping.

The suit contends that Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center was negligent in its treatment and discharge of Gabino Olvera, 42.

Olvera was released from the hospital in February. According to the lawsuit filed on his behalf, he was first taken to a downtown Skid Row mission but returned to the hospital because the shelter could not care for him.

He then spent eight hours in a wheelchair in the lobby before he was again taken 6 1/2 miles by van and left on a street, the suit contends.

Witnesses said the man, who lost the use of his legs in a car crash, had a catheter attached and was wearing only a soiled hospital gown. He was blocks from any shelter.

“Mr. Olvera had no choice but to physically drag himself along the gutter of the street with his belongings in a bag clenched in his teeth,” the lawsuit said.

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