Le Figaro Lyon
Admitted to the Bourgoin-Jallieu emergency room for toe sores on January 4, Cathy (61 years old) never returned home.
This resident of Eydoches, in Isère, died after 11 days in a coma in a Lyon hospital.
The sixty-year-old was transferred there following a heart attack which occurred after 11 hours of waiting in a chair at Bourgoin hospital, as her husband points out.
Jean-Didier Bonard thus filed a complaint against the Pierre Oudot establishment for failure to assist a person in danger, on February 6, according to information from
Dauphiné Libéré
confirmed to Le
Figaro
.
In his deposition, which we were able to consult, Jean-Didier Bonard specifies that his wife, disabled, waited more than eight hours in a chair while she was on oxygen.
The hospital did not respond to our requests.
He assured the regional daily that “
no defect in medical care”
has so far been noted.
“They just want to put me to sleep, but I’m not sleepy at all,”
he explodes
.
I have no children, no more parents, all I have to do is take care of them.
We can’t treat people like that
. ”
The widower protests against the ban imposed on him on January 4 to stay with his wife.
“I told them that she was suffering from lung, heart and kidney failure,”
he told Le
Figaro.
I indicated that she was disabled due to being overweight and that I was her caregiver.
They told me that no one could accompany patients to the emergency room except in exceptional circumstances.
If disability is not one of them, what are they?
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“I dedicated my life to taking care of her”
Entering the emergency room at the end of the morning, Cathy was quickly placed on oxygen, due to low saturation.
At 10 p.m., the flow rate is increased from 2 to 3 l/min, before an X-ray of the lungs and right foot during the night.
“They couldn’t have done both to him at the same time
,” says her husband.
Tired, the sixty-year-old, reduced to two liters of oxygen, according to her husband's account, was unable to fall asleep.
He was kicked out by the security guard the evening before.
“The municipal police were waiting for me on the sidewalk to take my identity
,” he fumes.
If I had stayed by his side, there would not have been these problems
.
It's in the morning that the problems arise, with a first heart attack.
“Cathy would have choked while taking her medication after breakfast,”
summarizes Jean-Didier Bonard.
She had to call me back, but it was the Samu who did it to say that they had shocked her after a cardiac arrest.
When I arrive they tell me that she has been transferred to the Lyon Cardio Hospital
.
Plunged into a coma for 11 days, Cathy suffered three more heart attacks, the last of which ended up taking her life on January 16.
According to her husband, the sixty-year-old was followed by a cardiologist every year since an episode of tachycardia in 2021, which did not, however, cause any particular concern for the practitioner.
“I dedicated my life to taking care of her. She was obese, out of breath as soon as she walked and this problem of gout in her foot was becoming more and more complicated
, says Jean-Didier Bonard
.
A healthy person does not emerge unscathed from a trip to the hospital after 11 hours of waiting, so in his condition…”
.
The deceased returned alone to their home in Eydoches, where he lives with his dog from his disability pension.
He has made a request for legal aid in order to be supported in a fight which promises to be long and costly.
And plans to launch an online prize pool.
He also plans to create a victims' association.