At the Remiremont hospital in the Vosges, three patients aged 59, 67 and 78 died between July 2020 and July 2022. Deaths whose causes remain unexplained, reports Vosges morning. Three manslaughter charges were filed.
Two of the deceased patients had entered the hospital with broken femurs and were treated by the “same surgeon and anesthesiologist,” one in July 2020, the other two years later, said the plaintiffs’ attorney, Me Nancy Risacher , interviewed by AFP. However, for one of them, “the operation went well” and he had to “go to a rehabilitation center” on the day of her death, July 29, according to the lawyer. “We don’t know the exact causes of death, they tell us the consequences,” which is a “multivisceral failure,” according to Me Risacher, who wants the “truth” to emerge “through complaints” because “we don’t die from a broken femur.”
According to the junta, the two women died in the “same nebulous circumstances”. The third patient was taken to the emergency room in May 2022 and died “a few days after acute pancreatitis,” Me Risacher added.
“We only ask to understand what happened”
Epinal’s public prosecutor’s office has opened a judicial inquiry “against X for manslaughter”, stated the public prosecutor, Frédéric Nahon.
The hospital management, “sorry about the situation”, made use of “state of the art treatment”: “we have an expert surgical team”, said the director, Dominique Cheveau. According to him, these complaints will allow us to shed light on the facts: “we only ask to understand what happened”, he added.
A fourth lawsuit for endangering the lives of others was filed against the establishment. The fourth actor, a 46-year-old man, went to hospital last October after a fall, where medical staff failed to detect ten broken ribs. “It could have been serious, affecting the lung, the spleen, because he was having difficulty breathing,” criticizes Me Risacher. His client, “unwelcoming” and with the “patience of an angel”, had ended up after several weeks of pain to go for an X-ray in an imaging center in Nancy: “there, they saw broken ribs, without appeal “.
The Regional Health Agency (ARS) Grand Est states for its part that “the subject is under investigation”.
