10 months suspended prison sentence for non-assistance to a person in danger and 10,000 euros paid to the girl’s family. This is the sentence to which was sentenced on September 22 by the criminal court, a doctor from Orlà © ans for refusing to travel 25 kilometers and go to the bedside of a girl ill with terminal cancer.
An inhuman reaction
The child, had left the hospital to be able to end his days at his home accompanied by his family. In this context, she benefited from the home hospitalization system (HAD) providing for medical follow-up to ensure the smoothest possible end of life for her at home.
On January 30, 2011, this retired on-call doctor (he was 75 years old) was on call. Called by a family to relieve their little girl suffering from cancer, he refuses to travel the 25 kilometers and had preferred to prescribe paracetamol by phone to the family. An inhuman reaction, according to the parents. And condemnable according to the experts who affirmed during the trial that “the prescription of morphine or of an” oxygen notherapy “would have made it possible to reduce the suffering of the little girl, died three days later, at the hospital where she had been admitted after the doctor refused to come to her bedside ».
The prosecution of the criminal court of Orlà © ans had called for a sentence against the doctor for 18 months. He was sentenced to 10 months suspended prison sentence and will have to pay 10,000 euros to the victim’s family.
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