The actress Sandrine Bonnaire accuses, in an interview with Parisian, Thursday November 30, a public nursing home in Charente-Maritime “medical negligence” having led, according to her, to the death of her mother in August, and confirms her intention to file a complaint. “I decided to speak out to alert”explains the actress three days after broadcasting on her Instagram account a video in which she announced her decision to file a complaint, without giving details of the establishment targeted.
“My mother was in a public nursing home in Charente-Maritime (…) We noticed that there was no toilet paper, and that cleaning was not always done, and the sheets were not changed”lists the actress in the columns of Parisian. “My mother barely walked anymore (…) but several times, the carafe of water was placed at the other end of the room. Impossible for her to use (…). Losing a mother is no small thing. Knowing that she left like that is unacceptable.”she adds, ensuring that she complained to the establishment.
“It took us several months to put the elements together”
“I can no longer fight for my mother who is no longer here but I want to do it so that the care of our elders changes”explains Sandrine Bonnaire for whom “we need more resources, certainly an increase in salaries so that employees can work properly”. “There are plenty of people who tried to fight but had to give up”she adds.
For Sandrine Bonnaire, “It was medical negligence that led to his death. It took us several months to put the elements together. My mother had no illness, she was 84 years old”. Asked by Agence France-Presse, Sandrine Bonnaire’s agent did not respond on Friday. The public prosecutor’s office in Saintes (Charente-Maritime) was not immediately able to confirm the filing of a complaint.
These accusations come almost two years after the Orpea scandal, which broke out in January 2022 in the wake of the publication of the book investigation The Gravediggers, by journalist Victor Castanet, on cases of mistreatment of residents of the private group of retirement homes. Following this scandal, the executive announced a strengthening of controls on nursing homes, both public and private, by the Regional Health Agencies (ARS) and the departmental councils.