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Perpignan: delicate operation to extract a 300kg man from his home by air

2020-12-01T20:35:17.477Z


The operation carried out in the Saint-Jacques district of the Catalan city this Tuesday morning is unprecedented. A 100 ton crane and no less than 50 people are mobilized to participate in the evacuation of a man suffering from morbid obesity.


Alain, a 50-year-old weighing 300kg suffering from morbid obesity and edema, should be extracted from his home this Tuesday, December 1 in a very delicate operation where his life is at stake, AFP journalists noted.

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For this "

high-risk operation

" according to his lawyer Me Jean Codognès, a classic evacuation by the stairs was impossible, Alain Panabière, 53, who lives on the floor in an unsanitary house, unable to pass the door of his room .

After initial consolidation work on the two-storey house located in a district with narrow streets in the center of the Catalan city (Pyrénées-Orientales), a sanitary cordon was installed Tuesday morning.

More than 50 people are also mobilized, including police, firefighters and medical teams, said the prefecture.

"We are in this situation where at the same time it can not last and where it is difficult to intervene"

confided Me Codogniès this Tuesday morning to our colleagues of the

Independent

.

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To extract it, part of the facade will be destroyed at the level of the first floor.

The man will then be moved horizontally in a container suspended from a 100 ton crane.

A medical team will also be on board the container.

The crane, which also has a 60-meter boom, will drop it off at street level, where an ambulance is waiting for it.

Complaint against X

After the operation, Alain will first be taken to the Montpellier University Hospital for a “

global assessment

” of his state of health, before his transfer a few weeks later to a center specializing in the treatment of severe obesity in Haute-Savoie. Garonne, north of Toulouse.

It has been almost four years since Alain has lived almost a recluse at home, installed on the floor of his apartment and can only count on the help of his brother to help him in his daily tasks.

If until last July the man had confined himself to refusing any treatment or any medical assistance, his brother, his lawyer and several doctors succeeded in making him change his mind.

I can't move a millimeter any longer.

Staying here is death.

But every day, I pray to God for him to lend me life,

”he confided to our colleagues from France 3 shortly before the operation on Tuesday.

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His lawyer had also sent a letter to the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin at the end of October asking him for urgent intervention.

A few days later, his client and the National League Against Obesity had filed a complaint against X for "

non-assistance to a person in danger

" and "

failure to help a person in danger

".

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Source: lefigaro

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