What we know about the death of the young woman who suffered from meningitis

On October 15, a 25-year-old woman died shortly after being transferred to the Scottish Shopping Center CHU from Montpellierfrom a meningitis sharp lightning. Beyond the pain associated with her death, her loved ones are questioning the chain of care for the young woman. And especially the judgment and lack of adequate response provided by the regulatory center.

What happened on October 15?

Called by the victim to her bedside on Tuesday, October 15, her best friend noticed that she “wasn’t really doing well,” she explained to him. Actu.fr which revealed the matter. She immediately called 15 who allegedly refused to surrender. She denies the operator’s “disgusting” tone at 15. “He told her: ‘Calm down, ma’am. Drink sugar water and you’ll be fine’”.

For almost two hours, while her friend’s health was deteriorating, she tried several times to call for help. “My best friend, my confidante was abandoned by those who are supposed to protect us, despite the calls I made until the 15th and 18th, without a doctor, or from Smur, or from Sdis 34, or an ambulance for several hours,” she explains.

Neither the young woman nor her friend had a car. It was the third person in the end who transported them to the Saint-Roch polyclinic emergency room. In the car, she lost consciousness. “She said to me ‘I’m seeing everything white, I’m going to die’.” In cardio-respiratory distress, she was rushed to the university hospital, where she died a few hours later.

Where is the study?

The family filed a complaint for not helping a person in danger. “No one cared,” explained the victim’s father RMC. I expect that justice will be done and that the guilty will be punished.” involved”.

The current investigations must make it possible to determine whether “not causing emergency services after the two calls is a fault, taking into account the information communicated to the operator (s)” , specifying, at TF1deputy prosecutor of Montpellier. Justice must determine whether “this delay is likely to affect the death of the young woman. Knowledge will be ordered in this regard, in a second step. “

How are the authorities reacting?

The Occitanie regional health agency has launched an investigative mission. The CHU, for its part, launched an internal investigation. “Not waiting for the result, several steps [internes] already taken,” referring to the establishment in a press release, without further details. According to Actu.fr, the deputy regulator who led the emergency calls was suspended as a precautionary measure by the management of the Samu and the CHU.

“All the elements available to the CHU have been communicated to the justice services,” specifies the institution. So the investigators seized the records of the conversations between the victim, her friend and the governor. The hospital center says it is “comfortable for the family, as well as those close to the patient”. He undertakes to “give them the necessary details in full transparency to understand the exact circumstances surrounding the death of this young patient”.