A medical error at the Dole Hospital? A 74-year-old man died on Monday, March 10 at the Jean-Minjoz University Center in Besançon, in Doubs, after being treated at the center of the Louis-Pasteur hospital in Dole, in Jura. The establishment indicates to BFMTV.com suspicion of a medical “error”. His widow denounces an “injustice” with progress.
Suffering of cardiac arrhythmia, the septuagenarian decides to consult his attending physician, while realizing that his heart beats much faster than normal, 150 beats per minute, explains what is his widow today. Your holiday doctor, the septuagenarian goes to the emergency room closest to your home in Dole.
Later in the morning, his wife received a call. Emergencies teach her that her husband has made cardiac arrest and that he is in a coma. In question, a medical error: “The nurse received the wrong bulb and injected a sedative,” he learns and trusts the newspaper of the Lyon region.
While its vital prognosis begins, it is transferred to resuscitation to the Jean-Minjoz Chu in Besançon. He finally died on March 10. “They killed me,” regrets his widow.
“A product error”
According to the septuagenarian widow, the hospital was transparent with him. The doctor who met explained that “he first thought of an allergic reaction. After verification, he discovered that a product error had been made.”
“At least, somewhere, they suppose,” she says.
The widow of the deceased patient indicates that she was also received by the director of the Dole hospital after the death of her husband. “I regretted it. We would be less,” he said.
She claims to have a progress that she has filed a complaint against the establishment of the Dole Hospital, where a medical error would have occurred. The public prosecutor near the Judicial Court Lons-Leunier, Julie Fergane-Tauzy, tells BFMTV.com that an investigation was opened for “homicide” and was entrusted to the Dole police station.
An open administrative investigation
The director of the center of the Louis-Pasteur Hospital of Dole Gilles Chaffnge confirms to BFMTV.com the patient’s care on February 26 and indicates that “his condition quickly deteriorated”, until his death on March 10 at the Besançon Hospital Center.
“The hypothesis of a drug administration error by an emergency service personnel is privileged,” says the director of the hospital.
Lasting a “serious undesirable event,” Gilles Chaffange claims to have issued “a report to the regional health agency of the Louis Pasteur hospital” and has launched an administrative investigation to “establish organizational causes and individual responsibilities behind this serious event.”
Source: BFM TV
