The most probable hypothesis “to explain the recent deaths of babies in the neonatal intensive care unit of the hospital of Chambéry is” an isolated production accident which occurred on November 28 at the Marette laboratory during the preparation of the bags intended for the hospital center of Chambéry ”announced today the Minister of Health, Marisol Touraine.
Let us recall that it is the Marette laboratory which provided the pockets of nutrition incriminated in the death of infants at the Savoyard hospital. “We do not know what happened, the event giving rise to the contamination has not been identified,” she said, however.
On this occasion, the Minister also announced a fifth suspicious death of a baby having been fed with one of the food bags from the Marette laboratory. After the already known deaths of Chloé, Théo and Milie in December 2013 and Mattéo in March 2013, this other death dating back to December 2012 could be linked. “We cannot definitively rule out the idea that another contamination may have occurred at another time in the Marette laboratory,” said the Minister.
The Minister also insisted on the fact “that there is no link between the practices of the hospital of Chambéry and the contamination of the bags”, even if certain major dysfunctions (in particular the use of bags whose date use limit had been exceeded) could be noted during the investigation.
