Aged 38, this resident of Mulhouse had left the emergency room barely 48 hours before his death. He then called the hospital three times, which eventually told him to stop contacting them. The family filed a complaint Thursday, February 16.
On the night of Saturday January 21, 2023, Daniel Perrette went to the emergency room of GHRMSA, the Hospital Group of the Mulhouse and South Alsace region. He then complained of very severe abdominal pain. Samples are taken and the 30-something is placed on a morphine-based infusion. Around 1 p.m., when he asks to be hospitalized, he is discharged from the emergency room. In his pocket, a powerful analgesic (Tramadol) and a letter for his doctor, indicating that he would suffer from a “hyperalgesia in the abdomen” (high pain) which could evoke “the likely course of acute pancreatitis.”
One of his sisters testifies in the Figaro. “He walked home from the hospital and explained to me that he had trouble walking. Above all, he told me that he had called the emergency room three times on Saturday. The person he had on the phone would have asked him to stop calling and go see your doctor.“After these three calls, he gives up. The next day, Sunday January 22, a relative went to see Daniel, who was so bad that he was lying down. On Monday, when one of his sisters has to pick him up for a doctor’s appointment, no one answers.
Daniel Perrette is found dead at the foot of his bed. Died on the night of January 22 to 23, less than 48 hours after going to the emergency room. His relatives are confused. “I’m not a doctor, but I don’t understand why we didn’t do a CT scan, an ultrasound, why we let him go alone when he was not well and he said so” explains his sister. According to the first results of the autopsy, he would have died of a tear in the duodenumpart of the small intestine.
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A case that reminds of others
This story is reminiscent of another, sadly famous and which has not yet found its ending. On August 21, 2020, Yolande Gabriel, a 65-year-old mother had found death in Reuil-en-Brie, in Seine et Marne. After being hospitalized for a heart problem in July 2020, she called the Samu that day, speaking with difficulty, out of breath. The regulation assistant had not taken her story seriously, transferring it to a doctor who will go so far as to lose his temper: “But damn, but talk into the phone!” Yolande Gabriel subsequently died at home. A complaint has been filed in this case, and the investigation began in June 2022.