the lifeless body of an 85-year-old woman found in a dumpster

The events took place on Friday February 23 and Sunday February 25. A week ago, uan 85 year old woman is admitted to the emergency roomAix-en-Provence hospital as she suffers an intense crisis. She suffers from a neurodegenerative disease called dementia with Lewy bodies and presents in parallel “symptoms of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and auditory hallucinations disorders”according to Provence. This is what pushed those around her to have her followed by a doctor at the Montperrin psychiatric hospital for seven years. But the crisis was so severe on the evening of Friday, February 23, that her usual doctor asked that she be hospitalized as soon as possible.

His daughter Claudine testifies to our colleagues and reports that it was necessary almost six hours for his mother to be taken care of by the emergency department neuro-geriatrics. She was not allowed to follow her once she was taken to a box. “Around 8:20 p.m., I came back by force but they took me back to reception. I was told that there were too many people, too much work, that I had to wait for a doctor to see her”explains Claudine, before confirming that she had finally been asked to return home. “I arrived at my home in Meyreuil at 9:45 p.m. and at 9:45 p.m.the hospital called me to tell me she was missing“she remembers.

A macabre discovery and an open investigation

As worried as she was upset, the daughter of the missing patient immediately asked “watch the surveillance cameras at the security station”. “We were told that the person who took care of them was on leave and that they did not have the codes to view them”, she insists. At the same time, with her entourage Claudine chooses to go looking for him, in the establishment, but also in the surrounding streets of Aix-en-Provence, worried because her mother has no means of contact and does not She doesn’t have her papers on her either.

After making a report of a worrying disappearance to the competent authorities, the hunt continued on Saturday February 24, without results. “The hospital didn’t move, no one did anything. We entered everywhere, in the MRI, in the doctors’ office except in the patients’ rooms, as a measure of respect”, says Claudine. Finally, the lifeless body of the 85-year-old woman was found the next day, in the middle of the afternoon. “I went to the basement with my firefighter cousin, first and then a second time. He was the one who found her, dead, in this trash container“, she explains to our colleagues. The scene might seem surreal.

The family decided to file a complaint

Faced with the situation and consumed by pain, the family of the deceased decided to file a complaint against the Aix-en-Provence hospital and an investigation was opened in order to understand the causes of the death of this octogenarian according to the public prosecutor of Aix Jean-Luc Blachon (France 3 Provence-Alpes). “The investigation shows that the victim entered the dumpster alone. The surveillance cameras finally used show the lady in the basement of the hospital, climbing the container herself.it is emphasized, before revealing that the results of the autopsy had made it possible to determine that the victim died of pneumonia.

Contacted by La Provence, “the hospital reacts with deep sadness”. “The staff are very shocked. We expressed our condolences to the family. We are connected with her. We have undertaken a large number of analyses”, we know. But these excuses don’t stop Claudine from thinking that her mother would still be alive today if it had been possible to view the hospital’s video surveillance images.

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