New stage in the case of suspicions of abusive dialysis in Nancy. The Nancy public prosecutor’s office has opened a preliminary investigation to “unintentional homicide and unintentional injury”. This comes after the complaint against Around thirty patients would have been unduly placed urgently on dialysis – a kidney filtration system –, leading to risks for their health and additional costs for Health Insurance. “They suffered from acute renal failure, the treatment of which should have required medical care, but in no case dialysis”, Renaloo announced in a press release on Tuesday January 30. This therapeutic choice could have contributed to several premature deaths.
The Nancy public prosecutor’s office has entrusted the investigations to the Central Office for the fight against attacks on the environment and public health (Oclaesp), announced the prosecutor, François Capin-Dulhoste, to AFP, confirming information from France Bleu Lorraine. Investigators carried out searches on March 22 at the Nancy-Lorraine private hospital.
“This complaint, brought by the patients themselves, was made necessary by the inertia of the response of the institutions responsible for the safety of care, and in particular the ARS [agence régionale de santé] Grand-Est, following several alert launches in the summer of 2023 », Renaloo said in a press release on March 26.
The impartiality of experts called into question
The establishment has also been subject since September 2023 an expertise mandated by the regional health agency and a ” control “ health insurance, ” ongoing “. The patients’ association calls into question the impartiality of the experts appointed by the ARS Grand-Est, in particular two of them, one being the current president of the Union of Liberal Nephrologists, and the other the former president. Renaloo filed a request for annulment with the Nancy administrative court, which was rejected, but appealed this decision, she specifies. Contacted, the ARS Grand-Est did not “no comment to make on this judge’s decision”while adding that “work continues in order to objectivize the situation regarding care in this dialysis center”.