A 77-year-old patient had endured significant suffering between 2015 and 2016 after the migration of a probe placed to feed him. As reported The Republican Echo this Thursday, January 28, the administrative court of appeal of Nantes has just recognized the responsibility of the Hospitals of Chartres (Eure-et-Loir). After having been operated on for “Generalized peritonitis” in October 2015, the septuagenarian was fitted with a balloon catheter.
He then had a series of complications and suffered severe abdominal pain until February 2016. In June, eight months after his first operation, he was finally able to return home. During a first trial, the administrative court of Orléans recognized his ordeal and granted him € 2,000 in compensation. « provisionnelle » out of the € 50,000 he had requested.
A “lack of supervision” denounced
Fingered for “Lack of supervision”, the Hospitals of Chartres then appealed and put forward the treatment sheets to prove their good faith. But according to the Nantes administrative court of appeal, “The surveillance documents produced by [les Hôpitaux de Chartres] […] do not make it possible to establish that specific monitoring has actually been carried out ‘.
The “Right to compensation for damage suffered”, was then admitted, but the septuagenarian having died in October 2020, it is his possible heirs who should receive his compensation post-mortem. As their existence could not yet be confirmed, the court could not rule on the amount of this compensation.
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