The father of Amélie Champagne, who took his own life due to the suffering she experienced following a diagnosis of Lyme disease, denounces the failure of the health system this Monday morning at the opening of the public inquiry.
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After thanking the coroner for opening a public inquiry into the death of his 22-year-old daughter, Alain Champagne told the media that his “family was the victim of a system that failed.”
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“Why are families essentially rejected by the system, kept apart, left to fend for themselves?” he then asks.
The father is sorry that his family’s appeal for help was not taken seriously.
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“Why did the Sherbrooke University Hospital reject Amélie, seeming more interested in transferring her to Notre-Dame than in treating her?” he asks himself.
Amélie Champagne was not on her first attempt when she took her own life, and her father wants to know why she was not taken into care.
“What we experienced is not a problem of access to health care, it is downright rejection,” he says.
“Not an opportunity to try to justify oneself”
This morning, he hopes that the public inquiry will shed light on the tragic death of his daughter.
“The public inquiry is intended to be a unique opportunity to highlight, to highlight, to name things, to change things that do not work, it is certainly not an opportunity to try to justify them,” adds -he.
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The story of the young woman had caused a lot of ink to flow in September 2022. She had been admitted to a Sherbrooke hospital for great distress, but given that she had a Montreal address, it was decided to transfer her to the Notre-Dame Hospital in Montreal. It was between the two that she finally ended her life.
The investigation will run throughout the week and will continue later in January.