2024-10-29 16:09:00
The Montpellier public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation to investigate the causes of the death of a 25-year-old woman on October 15, who died of meningitis after emergency services did not come despite two calls, the one to the SAMU and the other to the firefighters, learned The World with the public prosecutor, Tuesday October 29. A complaint was filed by the family, which blames the delay in the failure to trigger emergency services, said the same source, confirming information from the site Metropolitan.
The objective of the investigations is to know whether “the failure to trigger emergency services after the two calls constitutes a fault given the information communicated to the operator(s)”explained the prosecution, adding that the analysis of telephone recordings was underway. The investigation also seeks to determine whether “This delay is likely to have an impact on the death of the young woman. An expert opinion will be ordered in this regard in a second step”added the prosecution.
It was a friend of the victim who contacted emergency services. In another article of Metropolitanshe says that the 25-year-old woman “vomited all night” from Monday October 14 to Tuesday October 15, before being reached “high fevers”. Informed of her state of health, she decided to call the SAMU for the first time, at 3:15 p.m., according to her. She exchanged with a “operator or doctor on call, I don’t know”who advised him to administer “water with sugar”before directing him to SOS-Médecins, without sending a team of caregivers.
“My body is on fire, I’m going to die”
Then, thirty minutes later, seeing her friend’s condition deteriorate, she called the 18th. “A firefighter switched me again to an operator from Center 15, an orientation which had no follow-up, since I had just had the SAMU. I clarified on each call that she is asthmatic and has a lot of difficulty breathing. I was advised to give him his Ventolin”she reported. Here again, no caregiver was dispatched.
She then claimed to have called back on the 18th after her friend had fainted and she had noticed “stools with blood-red fluid”as well as the impossibility for the young woman to move her legs and one hand. Following the recommendations of the operator she spoke to on the phone, she gave her friend medicine to reduce the pain, ran her hand under water and made her take a hot shower, she said. she continued.
Shortly before 5 p.m., with the help of a friend and her vehicle, she transported the young woman to the Saint-Roch clinic. According to her account, her friend was breathing more and more weakly and the Ventolin prescribed had no effect. The young woman repeated: “I see everything white, my body is on fire, I’m going to die”before losing consciousness during the journey. Elements confirmed by the prosecution which announced that the young woman was “inanimate and in a state of great cardio-respiratory distress” when she arrived at the clinic. She was then transported by SMUR to the emergency room of Montpellier University Hospital.
Internal investigation at Montpellier University Hospital
“The care proved insufficient. The death of the young woman was noted shortly before 7:30 p.m. on October 15, with medico-legal obstacle [c’est-à-dire que les services funéraires sont suspendus jusqu’à autorisation donnée par l’autorité judiciaire] », Communicated the public prosecutor, establishing that “the cause of death is certain: diagnosis of meningitis confirmed during the medico-legal autopsy (invasive meningococcal infection – serious transmissible disease). The adapted protocol has been implemented by the health authorities.”
Friday October 25, the Montpellier University Hospital expressed its “emotion” After “the sudden death of a young 25-year-old patient”in a press release. The hospital has launched an internal investigation and ensures that measures have been taken “already taken”. For its part, the Occitanie regional health agency (ARS) launched an inspection mission.
The death of this 25-year-old woman is reminiscent of that of Naomi Musenga, in 2017. Aged 22, she had contacted the SAMU for pain and had not been taken seriously. She died late in the afternoon. Corinne M., SAMU 67 regulator, was sentenced, Thursday July 4, to twelve months in prison suspended by the Strasbourg criminal court for failure to assist a person in danger.
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