Hospitalized in Nice, the baby had to be repatriated urgently to Paris, but the airline refused to transport it without an identity card. The child had to be repatriated to Paris by ambulance. “It’s totally absurd,” reacts the father.
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A three-month-old premature newborn was deprived of a medical repatriation flight between Nice and Paris for an urgent eye operation at the end of last week because he did not have an identity card, has learned franceinfo Wednesday November 10 with the baby’s father, confirming information from CNEWS. The child therefore had to be repatriated to Paris by ambulance. The journey took 10 hours.
Léon, a baby born at five and a half months pregnant and weighing 530 grams last July, was hospitalized in Nice despite his parents’ Parisian origins. “It is therefore a very very premature baby who had a vital prognosis for a month”, explains his father, Nicolas Lejeune. “Last Wednesday, when he was getting better, the hospital told us that he needed urgent eye surgery.”
“The hospital found a solution for us: a medical repatriation flight with Air France, says Nicolas. Except that the company did not want to take our baby because he did not yet have an identity card and the family record book had been sent to our Parisian home. “ The dad also explains that “The 10 hour ambulance tired him out.”
“He didn’t need oxygen anymore and now he needs breathing assistance again.”
Nicolas, father of the childto franceinfo
The couple finally adds that they do not want to argue with Air France. “What we simply want is that other parents who are parents of very premature babies do not have to undergo this kind of situation just for an identity card … For us, it is totally absurd. A birth certificate could have been enough … “, explained his father.