Lilou was admitted to hospital on August 1 to undergo surgery for scoliosis. But the operation did not take place, the young girl having suffered a perforation of the trachea during the anesthesia.
An investigation was opened after the death of an 11-year-old girl at the Brest University Hospital, where she was to be operated on for scoliosis, AFP learned from the Brest public prosecutor on Thursday September 14, confirming an daily information West France. The child was pronounced dead on August 3. The parents filed a complaint on August 8.
“This is a little girl who was doing perfectly well and was going to start 6th grade in September”testifies the parents’ lawyer, Maître Vincent Sehier. “Such a death is exceptional,” he emphasizes, while pointing out “chain errors” and one “lack of competence of the care team”.
According to the lawyer, Lilou was admitted to Brest University Hospital on August 1 to undergo surgery for scoliosis. But the operation did not take place, the young girl having suffered a perforation of the trachea during the anesthesia. This perforation compressed the organs, including the heart, and “there was oxygen deprivation in the brain which caused the death of the child”adds the lawyer, who had the parts of the medical file analyzed by five professors of medicine.
The Brest University Hospital remains silent
After this perforation, “it was still possible to save the child”he says. “But the situation does not appear to have been understood and appropriate treatment decisions have not been made either.” Vincent Sehier, who regrets that the CHU did not send him all the requested medical documents, intends to obtain a contradictory medical expertise from the commission for conciliation and compensation for medical accidents.
The Brest University Hospital, for its part, did not want to communicate on the subject due to the“judicial investigation currently underway”while presenting “All his condolences to the young girl’s family.” “We share their pain in this moment of mourning”added the CHU.