Mireille Ndjomouo, a 44-year-old woman who had appealed for video help from her hospital bed a few days before her death has died of natural causes. This is indicated by the coroner’s report which concludes that she succumbed to lymphoma after refusing for many years the treatments for HIV offered by her doctor.
Mireille Ndjomouo’s message published a few days before her death rocked social networks. The mother of three children of Cameroonian origin called for help to leave Charles-Le Moyne hospital. She was worried about her state of health and thought she had received penicillin, an antibiotic to which she is nevertheless allergic.
Coroner Amélie Lavigne performed a complete review of Ms. Ndjomouo’s medical file. The mention of his allergy to this antibiotic would indeed have been entered in his file. “In addition, no mention of an administration of this antibiotic is entered in the file”, specifies Me Lavigne in, indicating that “the skin reactions did not result from an administration of penicillin”, but “rather from nodular lesions. arising from his diffuse large B-cell lymphoma ”.
Also according to the report, the observation notes in Mireille Ndjomouo’s medical file indicate that she had known her HIV diagnosis for many years.
“Despite the multiple explanations received by her attending physician about the principles of disease progression and the slow deterioration of her immune system, the patient categorically refused all the treatments offered,” explains the coroner.
In her report, the coroner recalls that she does not have to pronounce, at the end of her investigation, “on the civil or criminal liability of a person, nor to examine the competence or the attitude of the persons involved in the investigation. the treatment of a person in the health network ”.
The CEO of the CISSS de la Montérégie-Center commissioned the quality department last March to examine the situation.
A confirmed diagnosis
Medical examinations carried out at Charles-Le Moyne Hospital enabled the medical team to retain the diagnosis of a type of lymphoma developed in a clinical context of HIV.
“Despite the many recommendations made by the medical team, she signed a form specifying that she refused all treatment and she was transferred to the Jewish General Hospital on March 8, 2021, where she was taken care of by the nursing staff, ”says the coroner’s report. New medical examinations were carried out on March 8, 2021 at the Jewish Hospital confirmed this diagnosis, as did the autopsy performed at the McGill University Health Center.
Mireille Ndjomouo’s call for help triggered a surge of solidarity on social networks. A demonstration was even organized in front of the Charles-Le Moyne hospital by the “Justice for Mireille Ndjomouo” group which was created on Facebook in the wake of the events. Terrified by the video of Mireille Ndjomouo, Montreal lawyer Aric Jackson Kingne Wekouo had decided to take care of the case on behalf of the family of the deceased.
Mireille Ndjomouo’s sister had raised more than $ 30,000 via the GoFundMe platform. It was not possible for us to join Ms. Ndjomouo or Me Aric Jackson Kingne Wekouo to collect their comments.