Dr Frédéric Péchier's provident fund is asking him to reimburse 500,000 euros of sick leave that it considers unduly paid. The Besançon anesthesiologist is suspected of 24 poisonings, including nine fatal. Since his indictment and his placement under judicial supervision in 2017, the doctor has been on sick leave and, as such, he has received 500,000 euros, said Lionel Béthune de Moro, confirming information from the Parisian.
But the provident fund, specializing in the medical field, decided to assign Mr. Péchier to civil proceedings, before the judicial court of Poitiers where the anesthesiologist now resides. "She asks for the full reimbursement of the sum, believing that she has paid wrongly for three years and that she should not have paid this money" on the grounds that he has "a judicial ban on working", specified the lawyer.
However, according to the council, "the provident fund was advised of the legal proceedings from the outset and it cannot deny having been informed". "This doctor, like everyone else, has provident insurance in the event that he no longer has any income because he is unable to work," notes Me Béthune de Moro. However, "Dr. Péchier does not work for a legal cause, but also a medical one", he adds, ensuring that "the health insurance has never contested his prolonged sick leave for psychological repercussions".
He had asked to work again at the height of the Covid-19 crisis
"I would like to know under what conditions Mr. Péchier was declared unfit by a doctor when he asked several times to be able to work again", asks Mr. Frédéric Berna, lawyer for several families of victims. . At the height of the coronavirus epidemic, the anesthesiologist had asked for the right to practice as a telephone regulator, "to take his part in the war effort", according to his lawyer. This request was rejected by the examining magistrate.
Dr Péchier was indicted for 24 poisonings of patients followed by his colleagues between 2008 and the end of 2016, nine of whom died. He is suspected of having polluted the infusion bags of these patients, aged 4 to 80, to cause cardiac arrests and then to demonstrate his talents as a resuscitator and to discredit colleagues from the Besançon clinics with whom he was in conflict. The anesthetist was kept at liberty under judicial supervision, with an obligation to leave Besançon and a ban to practice.
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