2023-12-28 14:08:37
The 115 is saturated with calls, emergency accommodation places have become impossible to find in Marseille: during this holiday season, hundreds of homeless people are left on the street. But some situations are more painful than others, like that of Mohammed, 9 years old, which La Marseillaise and BFM Marseille reported on.
Suffering from a spinal malformation, and already operated on for the first time in La Timone, this child risks finding himself without an accommodation solution, while waiting for a second operation, explains his father, Belkacem Khellouf, who is launching an appeal for ugly.
Without emergency accommodation, despite reminders to 115
How did we get there? However, solidarity was there on August 4, when the father and son, arriving from Algeria, presented themselves at the emergency room in La Timone. Although not having prior agreement from the Algerian social security fund, the child was taken into medical care, under State Medical Aid (AME).
“Every year, around twenty foreign children are taken directly to the AP-HM by their parents who come to seek care in Marseille, most of the time for leukemia, tumors or serious malformations”, explains Professor Jean-Luc Jouve, head of the pediatric center at the CHU. A social assessment was carried out by the permanent access to care service (PASS) in which, according to the AP-HM, the father declared that he had “stable accommodation” in Marseille, with a friend. Offers of accommodation were made to him, which he then refused.
The visceral surgeons then began treatment, by performing a colostemia (intestinal diversion), a prior intervention necessary several months in advance, before being able to carry out an operation on the bottom of the spine, within a period of 3 to 6 months.
At the father’s request, the child remained hospitalized for a week, instead of the 48 hours planned for colostemia. Because in the meantime, the “friend” who was supposed to accommodate him and his son has apparently changed his mind… So here they are in fact without a roof over their heads, and without emergency accommodation, despite reminders to 115 from the social worker.
According to the Timone doctors, a return to Algeria would be possible, while waiting for the second intervention to be scheduled, but the child’s father would refuse this return trip.
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