The verdict is in, the Brest University Hospital will have to pay nearly 141,000 euros to the victim of a medical error and 36,000 euros to his family, as well as around 360,000 euros to social security. In 2009, a 29-year-old young woman, mother of a young child, was forced to terminate her second pregnancy because of “genetic embryopathy” and undergo a therapeutic abortion.
During the operation, “the uterine muscle was perforated and part of the intestines aspirated by the cannula”, recalls the judgment of the administrative court of Rennes. As a result, the patient was operated on twice on February 12 and 19 and was forced to spend a month bedridden in hospital.
“The University Hospital of Brest committed a fault such as to engage its responsibility and must therefore compensate all the damages which have a direct and certain link with this fault”, according to the judgment of the administrative court of Rennes rendered after the hearing held on December 15.
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The victim will receive compensation of 141,000 euros for the medical error. But the addition doesn’t stop there. Indeed, the University Hospital of Brest was also ordered to pay more than 17,000 € to pay the bills for home help, household help during the period of hospitalization, part of the transport costs of the husband. , and the services of a medical consultant and is obliged to compensate for his loss of salary. Thus the judgment declared that “the loss of earnings was estimated at € 15,612. His professional development prospects are appreciably modified “,” his working capacities remain greatly reduced by his state of health “… The damage linked to this professional impact has been assessed at € 30,000”.
The social security of Finistère will be reimbursed for hospital costs, pharmaceutical and medical fees, and for daily allowances, of 359,272 euros.
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