What is happening at the Remiremont hospital center, in the Vosges? Four complaints (three for manslaughter and one for injury and endangering the lives of others) have been filed against the hospital after the deaths of three patients.
“Our patients are in danger! “: the alert of caregivers on the situation of the hospital
A new complaint must be filed during the week against the establishment. Charlotte Zanin, daughter of a patient who died following a cardiac arrest in 2018 in the establishment, confirmed with BFM TV Wednesday, December 28 that his father will file a complaint for ” manslaughter “.
Unexplained deaths
“It is no longer possible, we want light and justice to be done”she explained, asking that the wing of the hospital which lacks means be closed temporarily, in order “to stop this massacre”. “They destroy entire families”, she added. Four years ago, Charlotte’s mother was admitted to the emergency room for severe stomach aches. After “at least seven hours of waiting”the doctors diagnosed her with stage 3 pancreatitis. Three days after her admission, she died of a heart attack.
Three other patients, aged 59, 67 and 78, died two years apart, between July 2020 and July 2022. The first patient, Irena Rouillon, had been admitted for acute pancreatitis with gallstones. Two days after her admission, the doctor called her husband. “He said to me: ‘Your wife, it’s over.’ The heart has dropped definitively, it’s a cardiac arrest, over. It’s a bit of a shock though.”he testifies to franceinfo.
“The public hospital is dying and no one cares! »
The other two patients had entered the hospital for a fractured femur and had been cared for by “the same surgeon and the same anesthesiologist”one in July 2020, the other two years later, said Me Nancy Risacher, joined by AFP.
However, for one of them, “The operation went well” and she had to “to go to a rehabilitation center” the day of his death, July 29, according to the lawyer. “We do not know the exact causes of death, we are told the consequences”namely a “multiorgan failure”according to M.e Risacher, who wants the ” truth “ emerges “through complaints” because “You don’t die from a fractured femur”.
“Professional support”
While the Epinal prosecution has opened a judicial investigation, the management of the hospital denies any accusation and avails itself of a “professional care”by “an experienced surgical team”.
“The deterioration of working conditions in the hospital causes deaths”
“There is a communication problemnevertheless recognized the director of the hospital, Dominique Cheveau, with Franceinfo. That is to say that the hospital, its doctors, its management, its services must be able to answer questions when there is a death that the family does not understand. Afterwards, from a medical point of view, nothing allows us to analyze any fault of the public hospital service. »
Yet, according to the lawyer for the Zanin family, ” it is not finished “. With BFMTV, the representative explains that she is studying the files of other families, for similar facts, who could in turn decide to file a complaint.
