Justice ordered additional information relating to the professional past of a surgeon who had operated on Corentin, who died at the age of 11 following an operation for appendicitis in 2014 in Metz.
The investigating chamber of the Reims Court of Appeal thus granted a request from the parents.
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She considered that "operational dysfunctions existed within the care establishment", "that the personnel present were not adequately trained", and that it was therefore appropriate to "return the file to the investigating judge “, can we read in the judgment of June 30.
"It is a satisfaction to have been heard, it shows that the matter cannot stop there", reacted the father, Pierre Jeras, who, with the boy's mother, had filed a complaint against X the day after the death of the child.
“Eleven claims compensated in thirteen months of presence”
Corentin, admitted on October 31, 2014 to the Claude-Bernard clinic in Metz for stomach pain diagnosed as appendicitis, was operated on the next day.
But the intervention had been stopped when a shock had been noted at the installation of a tube used for laparoscopies, a surgical technique which makes it possible to operate inside the belly by making only small incisions.
According to a source close to the case, it was on this occasion that the child's aorta had been affected, causing a hemorrhagic shock detected too late.
In total, seven practitioners intervened at the bedside of Corentin, who died the next day at the University Hospital of Nancy, where he had been transferred urgently after nine hours of operation in Metz.
In 2020, the Public Prosecutor's Office of Reims had requested the dismissal in correctional for manslaughter of the two surgeons who had operated on the child, and had been suspended by the Order of Physicians in 2016 for respectively three and two years.
Additional information was ordered on the past of one of them, questioned by Pierre Jeras.
According to the latter, an insurance report from this practitioner mentions “at least eleven claims compensated in thirteen months of presence in Lorraine and for significant damage with regard to compensation”.
The parents hope with this resumption of the instruction to eventually open the way to a questioning of the Claude-Bernard clinic in Metz and the Council of the Order of Physicians.
