Jessie Wallace
17-01-2007, 19:46
Veteran film director and food critic Michael Winner is being treated in hospital after falling ill while on holiday in Barbados.
Winner, 71, is being treated at The London Clinic, a private hospital in Harley Street.
Doctors have told him they might have to amputate his diseased leg to save his life, the Daily Mirror reported.
The Cambridge-educated director of the Death Wish series of movies replied "I would rather die than have it cut off", according to the paper.
Winner was taken to the Bayview Hospital in Barbados by ambulance on January 3, apparently after suffering an allergic reaction to medication prescribed a few days earlier for a fever.
At the time he told the Daily Mail: "Unfortunately, I had an absolutely dreadful reaction to the antibiotic and I came out in enormous blood blisters on my left leg.
"They covered the entire inside of my leg and each one was five inches long. Then they all burst and I was rushed to hospital with the sirens blaring."
Before flying back to the UK for further treatment, Winner complained about his Caribbean hospital.
He said: "It's horrible here. They're doing their best but the food is disgusting."
Winner underwent a heart bypass operation in 1993 and spent two days in a private London hospital in 2003 for an undisclosed complaint.
Winner, 71, is being treated at The London Clinic, a private hospital in Harley Street.
Doctors have told him they might have to amputate his diseased leg to save his life, the Daily Mirror reported.
The Cambridge-educated director of the Death Wish series of movies replied "I would rather die than have it cut off", according to the paper.
Winner was taken to the Bayview Hospital in Barbados by ambulance on January 3, apparently after suffering an allergic reaction to medication prescribed a few days earlier for a fever.
At the time he told the Daily Mail: "Unfortunately, I had an absolutely dreadful reaction to the antibiotic and I came out in enormous blood blisters on my left leg.
"They covered the entire inside of my leg and each one was five inches long. Then they all burst and I was rushed to hospital with the sirens blaring."
Before flying back to the UK for further treatment, Winner complained about his Caribbean hospital.
He said: "It's horrible here. They're doing their best but the food is disgusting."
Winner underwent a heart bypass operation in 1993 and spent two days in a private London hospital in 2003 for an undisclosed complaint.