Which patient would like to be treated by Frédéric Péchire?

The anesthetist indicted in Besançon for 24 poisonings and suspected of eight others, will be able to practice medicine again.

However, he will not be able to practice in his specialty.

"The ban on practicing medicine only concerns the specialty of anesthetist" and does not relate "to the whole of professional practice", indicated in a press release the general prosecutor's office of Besançon.

However, it is the Council of the Order of Physicians who will have to decide in fine whether Frédéric Péchier, who denies the alleged facts, will be able to practice again or not, specifies the prosecution, relaying a decision of the chamber of the instruction of the Besançon Court of Appeal.

The latter also "modified the judicial control to which" the accused "is subject since March 6, 2017, by removing the ban on appearing" in the Doubs, department where his children reside in particular and where he can therefore return, according to the Prosecutor General.

The other methods of judicial control are on the other hand "maintained", in particular the obligation "to fix his residence" in Vienne, where Dr. Péchier resides with his parents, specifies the court.

Eight new cases of potential poisoning

Already indicted in Besançon for 24 poisonings which he has always denied, Dr Péchier has been suspected since last September of eight new cases of potential poisoning of patients, including four fatalities.

"The investigating magistrate is now waiting for all the results of the ongoing expertise, expected for January 2023, to be returned to hear Dr Péchier, then decide whether to indict him for these eight new cases", indicated at the end of September the public prosecutor of Besançon, Étienne Manteaux.

Frédéric Péchier, 50, is suspected of having polluted the infusion bags of patients aged between four and 80 to cause cardiac arrest and then demonstrate his skills as a resuscitator, but also discredit colleagues with whom he was in conflict.

He has never ceased to proclaim his innocence since the beginning of the case.

He had been hospitalized for several weeks from October 2021 after a suicide attempt.

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