Yvonne, 80, did not expect such a welcome at the Chubert hospital in Vannes (Morbihan). West France recounts the misadventure of this octogenarian hospitalized for vomiting following treatment for sciatica. The facts take place at the end of October. Yvonne is taken care of at Vannes hospital, in such a weakened state that she struggles to eat. The nursing staff takes care of her. After exams, she is placed on a drip in her room. Installed in her hospital bed, a doctor comes to disturb her in her sleep at midnight asking her to leave the premises. The astonishing story is made by his son, very upset against the establishment. “At midnight, a doctor came to see her telling her that she had to leave. She tried to reach us, in vain. She dressed herself and was kicked out”, explains her son François Coupez to West -France.
No one being reachable, the patient, disconcerted, finds herself in front of the hospital having to find a way to get home without having any means of transport. It is then suggested that she call a taxi … which she will pay for the fare of course. “In the middle of the night, at age 80, my mother found herself in front of the hospital and paying € 103 to go home to Belz,” her son said.
Hospital silence
This disappointment does not end there. Once she arrives home, Yvonne cannot open her garage door. It was then 2 a.m. She manages to open it with difficulty, groping in the dark and can finally go home. For his son François, these facts are unacceptable. “How can you leave a woman alone, weak, sick and 80 years old to manage to get home in the middle of the night?” A question to which the incriminated hospital answered evasively, not without kicking in touch: “this person has not, for the moment, requested the service of complaints of the users of the establishment. Consequently, we cannot make no comments on the care of this patient, “said the deputy director of the hospital, quoted by the newspaper.
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