It is a dismissal for the Toulouse hospital. Staff were accused of over-irradiating 145 patients. A bad calibration of the device was the cause.
The health center of the Paris tribunal de grande instance delivered its verdict on Monday, October 7 in the Toulouse irradiated case. The Toulouse University Hospital gets away with a dismissal. The hospital staff had been prosecuted for 5 years for “homicide” and “unintentional injuries” by 145 former patients.
According to the judge and the prosecution, no criminal fault can be attributed to Rangueil hospital. Of the 20 deaths that occurred after the events, none was related to the radiation doses received. Last fall, the prosecution felt that there was an “error” from the CHU but not “fault. In legal terms, an error is akin to a mistake while a fault leads to harm to others.
An association of 46 victims of over-irradiation has announced that it intends to appeal. She has accused the judge of bias for 3 years. The association’s lawyer denounces numerous negligence on the part of the radiophysicist and the manufacturer of the device. He also insists that the staff trained on the patients, with a device that was not fully installed.
Between April 2006 and April 2007, 145 people were treated for brain tumors at the Toulouse University Hospital. They had undergone radiation therapy and due to improper calibration of the device, all of these patients received radiation overdoses. For the victims, these seven years of proceedings have come to nothing.
The outcome of this case is all the more surprising for the victims, as a similar case had resulted in another verdict. In the case of the irradiated people of Epinal, the prosecution had sentenced two doctors and a radiophysicist to a ban on practice and 18 months in prison.
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