The medical control of Samu de Mulhouse worked "normally" during the management of a patient who complained of chest pain and died without an emergency vehicle being dispatched to her home, assured Monday the Regional Health Agency (ARS).
"What is certain is that regulation has worked normally," Virginie Cayré, deputy director general of the LRA for the eastern part of the Grand Est region, told a press conference.
The parquet floor of Mulhouse announced Saturday the opening of a judicial inquiry following the death in mid-June of a 60-year-old woman, found dead in bed by a neighbor, ten days after a call to Samu's victim's employer to report that she was complaining of pain in her arm and ribcage.
The patient died from cardiac arrest
The autopsy performed on the body confirmed that she had died as a result of cardiac arrest. According to Virginie Cayré, the conclusions of an administrative inquiry opened by the LRA during the summer will soon be made public. The report is "in the process of being finalized," she said.
"All the regulation devices worked," said Corinne Krencker, director of the hospital group of the Mulhouse-Sud-Alsace region (GHRMSA).
The medical control assistant at Samu first spoke to the employer of the deceased patient before calling her to ask her "a number of questions," she detailed. Then the assistant "immediately transmitted the call to the regulator who has been in contact with the patient for a long time", giving her "a certain amount of advice," she continued. The prosecutor of the Republic of Mulhouse, Edwige Roux-Morizot, announced that she would hold a press conference on this case Monday at 17 hours.