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A medical second opinion relaunches the investigation into the death of Naomi Musenga

2021-11-23T19:46:31.641Z


This mother of a little girl died at the age of 22 on December 29, 2017 in Strasbourg, a few hours after calling the Samu.


Almost four years after the sudden death of Naomi Musenga, her family still hopes to know the truth. The 22-year-old from Strasbourg died on December 29 in 2017, a few hours after calling the Samu. A new medical report contradicts the thesis of a death caused by an overdose of paracetamol. "

The death of Mrs. Naomi Musenga is linked to the dramatic evolution of a state of shock of abdominal origin

", believe the experts, according to which "

we must rule out the diagnosis of fulminant hepatitis with paracetamol

", fought by the family of the young woman. “

The obvious elements of gravity are in favor of the hypothesis (...) ofmultifactorial shock with an obvious hemorrhagic component with circulatory and metabolic repercussions

"AFP learned from this new expertise.

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This expertise was carried out within the framework of the judicial investigation opened in July 2018 for “

non-assistance to a person in danger

” and “

manslaughter

”, targeting the operator in particular.

With my parents we have been fighting for four years, in order to bring out the truth about my sister's death.

My sister did not kill herself by having taken too large a dose of doliprane, she was not listened to,

the victim's sister, Louange Musenga

, told

Figaro

.

"

Madame help me

"

Suffering from severe stomach aches, Naomi Musenga calls for help from the Samu around 11 am on December 29, 2017. But her distress is not taken seriously. In a recording made public in 2018 by the local Alsatian news newspaper

Heb'di

, we hear mockery and hostility from the operators of the Samu. The authenticity of the recorded statements has been confirmed by the hospital.

"

Madame help me,

" pleads Naomi Musenga.

But the operator replies: “

Well if you don't tell me what's going on, I'll hang up.

""

I am in great pain, I am going to die,

"assures the young woman.

"

Yes, you will die, certainly, one day, like everyone else

", annoys his interlocutor.

The latter ends up directing her to SOS Médecins, without transferring her call to the regulator.

If my sister had been taken care of immediately, she could have been saved,”

says

Louange Musenga

in

Figaro

.

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, the hospital in a state of emergency

Several hours after her cry for help, the young woman, still conscious, was finally taken to hospital.

She suffered two cardiac arrests, then was transferred to intensive care and died at 5.30 pm on December 29, 2017. After an investigation, the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (Igas) pointed out a delay of “

nearly 2 hours 20 minutes

” in her care, after his first call to Samu du Bas-Rhin.

After the revelation of this affair in the media, the person in charge of Samu of Strasbourg resigned and the regulator who had had Naomi Musenga on the phone was suspended.

Opening of an investigation in 2018

According to a first expert report carried out in 2018, Naomi Musenga would have died of the consequences of “

intoxication with paracetamol absorbed by self-medication over several days.

When help arrived, the young woman's condition was not worrying according to the hospital. However, according to the autopsy report, which

Le Monde

had obtained

, Naomi Musenga would have succumbed to "multiple

organ failure due to hemorrhagic shock."

"

The death of this young woman had moved public opinion. Emergency physician organizations then called on the government to "

find solutions to the problems of medical regulation so that such a tragedy does not happen again."

The Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, reacted strongly to the case on Tuesday, May 8, 2018 on Twitter, expressing her

"indignation".

Naomi Musenga's family believes that there was “

neglect

” of their daughter by the Samu.

Likewise, she denounces an autopsy of her sister's body "

too late

".

According to Louange Musenga, the autopsy was performed on January 3, five days, after the death of his sister.

"

Why did you wait for my sister's body to rot in the hospital?"

She asks herself.

Source: lefigaro

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