A nurse at Pennsylvania’s York County Prison told a pre-trial detainee, Willie Cunningham, who was suffering from appendicitis that he had heartburn and gave him Pepto-Bismol, according to a lawsuit filed on November 14 by the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project.

The suit was filed against York County, the facility’s then-medical provider, PrimeCare Medical, Inc., and three nurses who allegedly failed to treat Cunningham.

In October, York County ended its contract with PrimeCare and entered into a contract with MEDIKO, which hired many of PrimeCare’s employees, according to the suit. PrimeCare has been sued numerous times for allegedly providing dangerously inadequate medical care to incarcerated patients.

The complaint alleges that over the course of six days in December of 2023

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