Patient who died in the Strasbourg emergency room: relatives file a complaint

The relatives of a patient who died on March 17 in the emergency room of the Strasbourg CHRU after not having been taken care of for a dozen hours have lodged a complaint, AFP learned on Tuesday April 5 from the prosecution.

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“

,” said the prosecution without giving further details on the qualification retained, or on any persons or services named in the complaint.

The deceased patient had been admitted to the emergency room of the Strasbourg University Hospital on Wednesday March 16 in the evening.

Suffering from a digestive haemorrhage, he could not be taken care of until the next day in the middle of the morning, the service being overwhelmed, according to the account of several personal members.

The patient died early in the afternoon the day after his arrival.

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Digestive hemorrhage, “

, ”deplored to AFP Sébastien Harscoat, hospital practitioner in the emergency department.

“

.

The CHRU had announced the opening of an administrative investigation, while maintaining that there was an “

" this night.

Since December, hundreds of caregivers from the Strasbourg CHRU have regularly mobilized through minutes of silence observed in front of their establishment to denounce "

".