Le Figaro Bordeaux
The New Bordeaux Tondu clinic invokes
“medical confidentiality”
to avoid expressing itself on the matter, which the Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office has taken up. On March 4, after an emergency transfer to Bordeaux University Hospital while she was already in an artificial coma, Gwenaëlle Leterme, 38, died following a
“benign operation”
. His body was autopsied and an investigation, entrusted to the national police after the filing of a complaint against X by the victim's father, Jean-Luc Leterme, is underway. He must be interviewed by the internal security forces this Tuesday.
Admitted to the private clinic to have two cysts removed from her throat at the beginning of March, her daughter was released from the compulsory operating room without difficulty. As the medical procedure required it, she was then equipped with a Redon drain (a small oval bottle intended to suck up postoperative secretions).
“The aftermath did not go normally”
, testifies Jean-Luc Leterme:
“My daughter complained of not being listened to when she expressed her pain and her difficulties. She was not connected to any device and if she had a button
(to call the nurses, Editor's note)
either it did not work or it was not taken into account.
My daughter's fate was decided in four or five hours when she only had two cysts on her throat to remove
Jean-Luc Leterme, father of the victim
Heart failure
For Jean-Luc Leterme, first deputy mayor of Bonzac (Gironde), the
“increased”
vigilance which should have been put in place after the withdrawal of his daughter's Redon was not. According to the latter's confidences in Le
Figaro
, confirming information revealed by Actu Bordeaux, his support is also poorly traced. In a letter addressed to the family of the deceased, which we were able to consult, the Nouvelle Clinique Bordeaux Tondu assures that the procedure was carried out at 5 p.m. by a nurse. But a text from Gwenaëlle Leterme indicates to her partner that this medical procedure was carried out at 3:30 p.m., while the laboratory to which the bottle was sent for analysis mentions the time of 3:50 p.m. A 1h30 “medical blur” that Jean-Luc Leterme denounces by emphasizing
“the absence of real explanations”
from the private clinic whose responses he judges
“too vague to understand what happened”.
For the former regional director of the Association of Paralyzed People of France (APF) this chronological precision is all the more important as these analyzes establish the presence of a nosocomial infection.
According to communications between the family and the patient, the drama continued into the evening. At 9:30 p.m., on the day of the act, while she expressed
“still so much suffering”
, Gwenaëlle Leterme had still not been examined by her doctor. In the middle of the night around 1:30 a.m., the patient finally came out of her room to get help. And it was there, in the corridor, while the night staff accompanied her there that she collapsed, the victim of a
“sudden cardiorespiratory arrest”
according to the private clinic's letter to the family. The resuscitation procedures performed at her bedside remained in vain and Gwenaëlle Leterme never woke up from the artificial coma into which she had been plunged that day.
“My daughter's destiny was decided in four or five hours when she only had two cysts on her throat to remove. “Nothing could have happened in principle, but something medical happened, and it happened
,” his father now denounces. In
"search for the truth"
which he hopes to obtain from the investigations carried out by the Bordeaux public prosecutor's office, Jean-Luc Leterme wants the circumstances of the mysterious death of his daughter, whom he should have married in his town hall, to be clarified. next June 21.