the hospital forgets to notify them of their father’s death, they find out 36 hours later

An oversight not at all to the taste of the family. The Verbaeys family had the terrible surprise to learn during a visit to the hospital that their father had died 36 hours earlier, without anyone having been informed.

One of the sons, Michel regrets that his father “is dead all alone, when we could have been by his side“, as he explains to l’Union. Her father, 97, had been hospitalized since mid-December due to a long illness.

“When I arrived, his roommate let me know he had been transferred. I looked for a nurse. I found my answer in the rest room where the nurse I had seen two days before came to me, noting that I had not been warned, “explains Jean-Claude, another son of the deceased.

The hospital, which had according to the law of 24 hours to announce the death du Rémois to his relatives, was therefore at fault. But the family does not wish to “create controversy”, because their father was at the end of his life.

Contacted, the hospital ensures that the family of the deceased will be received very quickly and that the error is due to a “misunderstanding, following a change of nursing teams “.