Toulouse: the cesarean goes wrong, her organs come out of her belly, the young mother is preparing legal action against the Ducuing hospital
Ozlem, 20, suffered a disembowelment a few days after giving birth in Toulouse on December 21. The young woman launches legal action against the Ducuing hospital.
Ozlem doesn’t dare leave her house. “I can’t step outside without being afraid that the scar from my caesarean section will open again. It’s my obsession, ”she breathes. A few days after giving birth to little Lyana, on December 21, the young woman suffered a disembowelment. Her organs literally popped out of her womb. Ozlem had to be done urgently. The young woman seems out of the woods but she does not intend to stop there.
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She decided to take legal action against the health facility. Her representative Me Stella Busseuil will ask the Toulouse court for the appointment of an independent gynecological expert to examine her client “This will give us a clear basis before considering filing a criminal complaint against the hospital for unintentional injuries. It seems there was a problem with the cesarean sutures. I do not understand why this anomaly was not identified upstream. There is normally a postoperative follow-up during accompanied by the scar is particularly reported. How is it possible that on D+6 the hospital authorizes her to go home and that in the process, she undergoes an eventration without there being any warning signs? I’m wondering… “
“Doctors don’t like being held responsible”
The expert will determine the damage grids, in particular on the physical and psychological consequences of this disembowelment. The lawyer specializing in bodily injury (victims of AZF and Levothrox) can then set the amount of financial compensation that she will claim from the hospital. “We can’t even get the medical file or the name of the practitioner who delivered her! When something goes wrong, there needs to be a just judicial response. This makes it possible to compensate the victim but it also has a dissuasive aspect. I know that the doctors do not like that one puts in play their responsibility but the fear of the sanction pushes the services to function better. »
It is however possible that Me Bisseuil does not take legal action: “If it turns out that the caregivers have not committed any fault and it is discovered that my client was suffering from a malformation which could explain purely endogenous disembowelment, we won’t go any further. »
Solicited by the Dispatch, the management of the Ducuing hospital is content to indicate “that as health professionals, we are guardians not only of the well-being of all our patients but also of the medical secrecy that surrounds each of them. them. The columns of the newspapers can therefore in no way be the place of discussion between patients and caregivers. »