The relatives of an eight-year-old boy who recently died in the emergency department of the University Hospitals of Strasbourg (HUS) want:let all the light shineAn appeal will be filed over the death on Wednesday, September 21, their lawyer told AFP.
“The family will file a complaint or join the prosecution’s action“In Strasbourg, if he has already started an investigation, or if not, taking the necessary steps.”for initiation and investigation of a criminal case“for”Murder against X (…) should be expedited to shed full light on the circumstancesof death, said Me Mathieu Ayrold. Strasbourg prosecutor Yolande Renzi said.does not communicate on these filesA representative of the prosecutor’s office told “AFP”.
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The victim’s widow and two daughters believe that “at the very least, there are big questions that need to be asked about the treatment that (the patient) received or did not receive in the emergency room;of HUS, he continued. “We want the light to spread“, he insisted, adding that his clients wanted to remain anonymous and did not want to be contacted after that.
The patient’s death, which occurred on September 1, was publicized by the FO union, which immediately wrote to Health Minister Francois Brown to condemn “malicious emergency activityAt HUS, where a previous patient died in March after waiting several hours before being cared for. The death of an octogenarian intervened36 hours after submitting the right to noticeby “FO”.condemning another situation of emergency congestion and congestionFrom the New Civil Hospital (NHC) in Strasbourg, according to a message sent to Francois Brown.
According to Me Airoldi, “we had a very, very fragmented file transferof the patient, but which showsholes and a minimum of three hours“during which he”she was left unattended and unsupervised in an extremely agitated emergency room“. “He was a patient followed by the nephrology and urology departmentfrom the hospital thenwhy wasn’t he transferred to these departments instead, who knew him and who could get hold of him?“The council is still puzzled. The lawyer, who does not know the cause of death, also did not specify why the pensioner was taken to the ambulance.
Source: Le Figaro
