As part of the Priscilla Dray case, the Bordeaux University Hospital and the emergency leaders prosecuted by the patient, who accuses them of a medical error, risk a suspended prison sentence and a fine.
- For two days, the Bordeaux Criminal Court looked into the case of Priscilla Dray. It denounces an insufficient care of the Bordeaux University Hospital, which led it to be amputated by the four members.
- The prosecutor requested twelve and sixteen months suspended prison sentence against the two gynecologists, 10,000 euros fine each and a ban on exercising their profession for a few weeks.
- A fine of 50,000 euros fine, including 30,000 farms, was requested against the hospital.
Fourteen years after the facts, the Bordeaux Criminal Court has been looking at the Priscilla Dray case since February 17. As a reminder, in 2011, when she was 35 years old, this mother of three went to the Pellegrin university hospital center to undergo a voluntary termination of pregnancy. If she was healthy after the intervention on an outpatient, her condition had deteriorated with the appearance of a high fever. Back in the hospital, the merchant had asked the doctor on duty to receive antibiotics because she suspected an infection. However, the latter had refused and sent her home. The next day, her attending physician had again oriented him to the emergency room of the Bordeaux establishment, where according to her “We let her dye” While she did not smell well and had “The frozen feet and hands”.
Later, healthcare professionals had discovered that a bacteria from type A pyogenic streptococcus, called “flesh -eaten bacteria”, had started to consume its four members, who had to be amputated due to a septic shock. Following this tragedy, the patient, who suffered transplants and numerous operations, continued in court, because she believed that the CHU had delayed administering antibiotic therapy and had delayed her care.
Twelve and sixteen months suspended prison sentence against two gynecologists
Since Monday, February 17, the Bordeaux University Hospital and the Chiefs of Emergency on Saturday and Sunday appear before the Criminal Court for involuntary injuries by clumsiness, inattention, recklessness or negligence. “All the signals blocked, they were ignored, it’s scandalous”, Exclaimed the public prosecutor during the trial. According to France 3 Nouvelle-Aquitainethe latter required suspended prison sentences against the two doctors. For Dr. Vandenbossche, chief of emergency in maternity pellegrin on Sunday, a sentence of 16 months’ suspended imprisonment, due to a “guilty inactivity”, was requested by the prosecutor, according to France Bleu. Regarding Dr. Dekhili, emergency manager on Saturday, twelve months suspended prison sentence were claimed for diagnostic error. In addition, the two health professionals received a fine of 10,000 euros each and are suspended from their functions for a few weeks. On the hospital side, a fine of 50,000 euros, including 30,000 euros firm, was required by the prosecutor. At the end of the trial, the defense lawyers pleaded the release. The deliberation will be rendered on April 14.
“I would like the convictions to be as heavy as the ordeal that I could endure”
“We ruined my life as a woman, mother, my career plan, my professional ambitions. We broke the life of my children who suffer from anxieties, obsessions. (…) Justice must be exemplary, I would like to trust him, and that the convictions are as heavy as the ordeal that I have endured, all the sufferings I have gone through, me, my children, my husband, a whole family whose life has changed to cause of a negligence that should never have happened “, said, to France 3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine And Here GirondePriscilla Dray.
