Alabama teenager Hayden Hill stranded in Italy after falling from 60-foot cliff as family struggles to provide him with proper care overseas

The family of an Alabama 'miracle boy' who fell from a 20-metre cliff during a dream vacation to Italy says the teen is living in horrific conditions in an Italian hospital as doctors refuse to free him.

Hayden Hill, 18, was traveling through Europe with her New Hope High School senior class after graduation in May when her vacation turned into a nightmare.

Hill, of Huntsville, Alabama, fell from a 60-foot cliff while searching for an entrance to a Rome beach with a friend on June 8, according to WAFF 48.

The young graduate had jumped over a wall, believing it would get them to the beach faster, when he suffered a near-fatal fall to the shore below.

Hill was stranded for more than an hour before the Italian coast guard was able to rescue him and rush him to a community hospital outside Rome.

His family said he was treated for a dislocated hip and femur and suffered serious injuries to his ankle and foot.

Hill has also undergone several surgeries since the accident.

“The fact that he survived this fall is nothing short of a miracle,” reads a GoFundMe page set up for the teen. “In Italy, they call him 'the miracle boy'. »

Due to the severity of his injuries, Hill requires around-the-clock care and treatment.

Italian doctors refused to release Hill from the hospital unless he was flown back to America on a medical plane equipped to care for him.

Worse still, his family says the conditions he is currently subjected to in hospital while recovering are appalling.

“Right now in Italy they don't let him move, they don't let him sit, they don't let him do anything. They won’t even give the child a bedpan,” the teen’s sister, Hannah Hill, told the outlet.

“Now they are worried he has a bedsore on his butt. He starts spitting things out. So we fear he may start to suffer from pneumonia.

Since the accident, Hill's mother, Sharon, has arrived in Italy to be by her son's side as they try to find a way to bring him home.

However, relations with the hospital's medical staff have been far from friendly since his arrival.

“The orthopedist came in screaming and yelling at everyone and won't release Hayden until an American doctor comes here, shakes his head and says I'm going to rid you of this boy and I'm responsible from him now,” she wrote on Facebook. post Wednesday.

“That’s not going to happen.”

Hill's mother explained that if they couldn't get him on a flight back to the United States by Saturday, they would try “at least to transfer him to a better hospital in Rome, where more people are talking English and where he could receive better care.

“Socialized health care is different people!” Not bad necessarily but not like home,” she wrote.

Sharon Hill also confirmed that her son is “spitting up dark brown mucus” and that he has been put in diapers and that she “hopes” he will have a bedpan.

His sister says the U.S. Embassy offered her brother a wheelchair and a van to transport him to the hospital if they find a flight to take him back to Alabama, but the cost of a medical flight would be more than that. that the family can afford.

“If we can get him to the plane, we can get him on the plane, we’re not worried about that. Getting him to the hospital, I don’t worry about that either, I just get him out of there and give him that care,” Hannah Hill told WAFF 48.

“The goal is to bring Hayden back to the United States, regardless of means or cost,” reads his GoFundMe page.