Michel went to Reims hospital to visit his sick father. The hospital in Reims had not warned him that he had died the day before.
It’s a sad Christmas that the Verbaeys family is about to spend. At the end of November, Michel, living in the Marne, goes to Reims hospital to visit Georges, his 97-year-old father. According to our colleagues from the newspaper L’Union, the nonagenarian then fought against a long illness for years.
When he arrives there, Michel discovers with amazement that his father is not in his room. Worse, another patient was then occupying the old man’s bed. The patient tells him that Geogres has been transferred to another department. Michel, his son, goes in search of a nurse who will take care of him. The verdict falls: Geoges’ state of health had deteriorated, and the patient died the day before.
“Nobody warned the person you trust”
The hospital had 24 hours according to the law to announce the death of the patient to the family: “No one warned the trusted person, or that our father’s condition worsened, so that we could accompany him. at the time of his death, nor, what is worse, of his death. And that for 36 hours… “, testifies Michel.
The late announcement of Georges’ death forced the Verbaeys family to hurry to organize the funeral of the deceased. For its part, the hospital evokes a “misunderstanding”: “It is more than regrettable that his relatives were warned when they came to the establishment”, explain the hospital establishment in the columns of L’Union. The Reims hospital apologized to the family of the deceased.
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