Béziers: a 41-year-old patient dies in hospital after a miscarriage
A woman taken care of obstetric gynecology for a miscarriage on Saturday November 13, at the Béziers hospital center, died the next day.The victim was the mother of 4 children, including a 13 -month -old baby.
The family is still in shock.A forty -year -old patient died at Béziers hospital the day after her admission to the obstetric gynecology department.She was treated there after doing a misconduct at her home.
For those close to the victim, she would have made an internal hemorrhage following this miscarriage, they suspect a medical error.On the side of the hospital center, it is the hypothesis of a heart problem that would have been advanced.
This ""brutal"" death, under the own words of the hospital, was immediately reported to the public prosecutor of Béziers.
Management then hospitalization
The woman was taken care of by the emergency department on Saturday November 13 in the morning, then, later in the evening, she was hospitalized in the obstetric service.She died there on Sunday in the morning.
""An administrative and medical procedure - a medical obstacle - was carried out to determine the actual reasons for death"" explains the hospital.""The death medical certificate signed by a doctor from the hospital center, specifies it"".
According to her daughter, Aya, 15, whose colleagues from France Bleu Hérault collected testimony, she was allegedly sent home between her arrival in the emergency room and her hospitalization in obstetric gynecology.
But around 6 p.m., faced with his wife's pain, the husband decides to transport his wife to the Champeau clinic for another expertise.""We refused to receive her because she had been seen in the hospital"" confides her daughter.""We then returned to it (Editor's note: at the Béziers hospital center)."".
Judicial information and internal medical investigation
Following the death, judicial information was opened for manslaughter by the Béziers prosecutor.
In a press release, the Béziers hospital center specifies the procedure set up to understand this drama.
In addition to the alert of the prosecutor and the internal administrative and medical investigation, all medical data were communicated to justice and the Regional Health Agency Occitania has been informed.Internal work of analyzes of the circumstances of this death has been carried out.
A meeting with the family
Three days after the death of the patient, a meeting between the victim's family and the health professionals who took care of it, was organized at the Béziers hospital center, in the presence of the Medical Media.
The victim of Moroccan origin had lived in Béziers for three years after having resided 17 years in Spain.