Daniel Perrette, a 38-year-old man, died at home on the night of January 22 to 23, 48 hours after leaving the Mulhouse emergency room with painkillers. According to the first results of the autopsy, the victim died as a result of a tear in the level of the duodenum.
His family filed a complaint on Thursday, his lawyer said. On January 21, the 30-year-old presented himself at night to the emergency room of the Hospital Group of the Mulhouse and South Alsace region (GHRMSA) complaining of severe abdominal pain. He was treated and biological samples were taken. “He was given Tramadol (an analgesic) and he was put on a morphine drip,” said one of his sisters, Priscilla Bein, who spoke to him by phone.
“He had called the emergency services three times”
“We let him out around 1 p.m., when he asked to be hospitalized, (with) a letter to give to his attending physician, in which it is written that he presented with hyperalgesia in the abdomen and evoked the probable evolution of acute pancreatitis, ”she said. “He walked home from the hospital and explained to me that he had trouble walking. Above all, he told me that he had called the emergency room three times on Saturday. The person he had on the phone would have asked him to stop calling and go see his doctor, ”testified his sister.
On Sunday evening, a relative came to see him “but he was so bad that he was in bed,” said Priscilla Bein. When one of his sisters came to pick him up on Monday morning to take him to the doctor, no one answered. The firefighters intervened and discovered him dead, at the foot of his bed. “I’m not a doctor, but I don’t understand why we didn’t do a CT scan, an ultrasound, why we let him go alone when he was not well and he said so”, asks his sister.
The crime squad has launched an investigation to determine the cause of death. For his part, the family’s lawyer, Renaud François, declared that he had not had access to the medical file but would also request “a medical expertise”. Requested, the GHRMSA indicated in a press release “to provide all its support to the family of the deceased and is at its disposal for any medical clarification”.