Civil prosecution was brought at the end of December 2023. The allegations it contains did not pass the court test.
In total, the CIUSSS and three doctors who work there are in solidarity with $ 565,000 in the file for events at the end of the year 2020 and at the start of the year 2021.
At that time, the spouse of one of the applicants in this file, Johanne Lehoux, begins to experience certain health problems, for which he consults the first time. Although he was prescribed an antibiotic, the patient had to be hospitalized a few days after his first consultation.
From December 26 to December 29, 2020, the patient’s condition would have deteriorated while he was under followed by DRE Nadia Caron, who is a specialist in internal medicine.
His condition would have aggravated again when he was under the supervision of Dr Luc Lanthier, also an internal medical specialist, from December 30, 2020 to January 2, 2021. The day of December 30, DRE Mélanie Massé, nephrologist (kidney specialist), is also used in the patient’s dossier.
The man finally died on January 2.
According to court documents, his vital signs have not been monitored during the last 15 hours of his life, when they should have been every four hours.
“As it will be demonstrated at the end of the upcoming investigation, would have been the faults committed by the defendant and alleged party [dans] the present [demande]it is likely that critical physiological changes from which [le patient] Prior to his death would have been identified in good time, probably to reverse the situation and thus avoid death, ”reads in the pursuit signed by Me Jean-François Leroux of the Medlegal firm.
-In other words, the survey of the applicants to establish the exact nature of all the alleged ill -treatment continues.
Essentially, however, the applicants, Mrs. Lehoux and the sister of the deceased, Mireille Dubois, allege that the three doctors have neglected to “proceed[r] to the investigation, treatment, monitoring or monitoring of the clinical condition “of their close patient in” the rules of the art “.
On the side of the CIUSSS, the workers of the establishment is accused of not having ensured the surveillance of the patient’s vital signs, in addition to not granting the status of the caregiver to Mrs. Lehoux.
More than half a million damage
This situation has caused several damage to the applicants, they allege.
Described in the prosecution, the financial losses for Ms. Lehoux amounted to $ 245,000. His non -pecuniary losses amount to $ 280,000.
For Ms. Dubois, there is a complaint of $ 40,000 in non -pecuniary losses.
The file will be back at the Sherbrooke Justice Palace at the beginning of May to process a request for an extension of delay.
Contacted by The platformthe lawyer for the seekers, Me Jean-François Leroux, said that no comment will be issued by his customers. The CIUSSS of Estrie-Chus, which is not represented by its litigation, but by the Lavery cabinet, did not respond to our request for comments, while the firm McCarthy Tétrault, which represents the doctors, stressed having “as a policy not to comment on the affairs of [ses] clients».
