“It was a horror movie!” : she loses her twin sister in the emergency room after thirty-six hours of trying everything to save her

Une sexagénaire s'apprête à porter plainte contre deux hôpitaux suite au décès de sa sœur (photo d'illustration). Luc Nobout – IP3/MAXPPP

In the south of France, a sixty-year-old is preparing to file a complaint against two hospitals following the death of her sister on September 6, 2022. She claims to have tried to convince the caregivers in these establishments to administer antibiotics for her twin.

On September 6, 2022, Thérèse, a 63-year-old Irish woman, lost her twin sister, in the south of France, according to a testimony from the Parisian . For thirty-six hours, she tried everything to save her, the sixty-year-old tells our colleagues.

"My sister is going to die! "

During her calls to the emergency room, when she meets a firefighter or a doctor in front of the Cannes hospital, Thérèse begs them: "Please please, listen to me, if you don't give her antibiotics, my sister will die!", s'is she entrusted to the Parisian. Le "contempt" caregivers, in her words, have haunted her for over a year. "It'was a horror movie", she shares again in the same article.

« Elle va mourir ! » : malgré ses suppliques, Thérèse n’a pas pu sauver sa sœur jumelle aux urgences
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Pain, fever, body trembling

On September 4, 2022, Frances, her twin, suddenly fell ill. Pain, fever, trembling body… A few days earlier, his dog bit his hand. In the emergency room of Cannes hospital, Frances' poor blood results require her to spend the night to carry out further tests. At his request, she came out, delirious, around 11:15 p.m., our colleagues report.

Thérèse will spend the night at his bedside, mopping his burning body. In the morning, his sister can no longer speak. Return to the hospital, in Grasse this time. Thérèse describes the hours of waiting, the story of the dog bite to be repeated. An intern would have ended up coming out to see them. "Please, every hour counts! Give him antibiotics!", Thérèse would have implored Thérèse quoted by Le Parisien. 

She is preparing to file a complaint

Her sister died on September 6, 2022, found unconscious behind the door of her hospital room. The doctor had just given him antibiotics, according to our colleagues. Frances is preparing to file a complaint for "manslaughter" against the two hospitals, according to the terms of her lawyer. 

Contacted by Le Parisien, the Cannes hospital responded that the "management , respectful of medical confidentiality, does not comment". The one in Grasse, where Frances died, did not respond to their requests.