Lawsuit Being Considered In Death Of Quebec Man Who Sought Maid Over Bedsores

A suit could beryllium nan adjacent measurement connected a grieving Quebec woman’s agelong travel to find justness for her partner, whose infirmary enactment past twelvemonth yet led to his death.

Normand Meunier, a 66 year-old quadriplegic patient, sought aesculapian assistance successful dying (MAID) successful 2024 aft spending days connected a stretcher successful nan St. Jerome hospital’s emergency room. His terrible unit sores worsened successful hospital.

At a news convention Wednesday, Patrick Martin-Ménard, nan lawyer for Meunier’s wife, Sylvie Brosseau, announced that he plans to record a suit connected behalf of Meunier’s family for damages.

He is besides considering filing a people action suit connected behalf of different patients, who developed furniture sores astatine a infirmary successful Quebec arsenic a consequence of not having entree to due material.

“Or owed to negligence of nan aesculapian aliases nursing unit successful applying nan modular of attraction to dainty and forestall unit wounds,” he explained.

He noted that what happened to Meunier is simply a communal problem crossed nan province, and that “dozens of group person contacted america and, I deliberation it’s really nan extremity of nan iceberg.”

“Pressure wounds person been for a agelong time, genuinely a unsighted spot successful galore environments of attraction wherever it seems for illustration nan risks are not decently understood.”

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A coroner’s study this week successful Meunier’s lawsuit points to respective shortcomings, including incomplete consequence assessment, irregular mobilization, deficiency of training and nonaccomplishment to accommodate wellness attraction for spinal cord injuries.

Brosseau is relieved astir nan study but holds nan infirmary responsible.

“Nobody listened to america and we were wholly ignored (by infirmary staff)” she complained.

She welcomes nan report’s 31 recommendations and believes nan full wellness strategy needs an overhaul.

“You person nan full strategy which is inadequate to grip specified cases,” she stressed.

Ariane Gauthier Tremblay pinch Moelle épinière et motricité Québec agrees that urgent alteration is needed.

“Preventing unit sores doesn’t request precocious level of knowledge,” she argued. “It’s a basal nursing practice.”

Meunier’s family and ineligible squad want nan coroner’s recommendations implemented accelerated successful nan hopes nary 1 other has to look nan aforesaid fate.

“A batch of group are successful that situation,” Martin-Ménard observed, “and a batch of group are suffering greatly because of this.”