Admitted to the emergency room around 4 p.m., the young man communicated by message with his family throughout his slow agony. “I complain to everyone that I have trouble breathing. But no one does anything,” he wrote to his mother. Accompanying people cannot enter the department, Lucas’ parents remain parked in the hospital parking lot, helpless.
« Horrible maman, horrible »
The texts keep coming, the hours too. “Terrible mom, horrible. » The sixty-year-old advises her son to cry for help and ask to see his loved ones. “Lucas never complained! If he says it’s not okay, it’s not okay at all,” says the mother.
In the corridor, another patient notes the lack of reaction from the white coats. “A doctor asked him if he had smoked cannabis, probably because he had dreadlocks. Then concluded, in less than thirty seconds, to indigestion,” assures Damien, also 25 years old. “Then I realized it was much more serious when I saw him writhing in pain. »
The family filed a complaint
Lucas collapses on his stretcher in the evening. His neighbor has to call a nurse so that a blood test can be taken. Everything happens very quickly, but it is not until midnight that he receives an injection of antibiotics. It is already too late, the young man suffers two cardiac arrests in front of his parents, who are finally allowed to enter the emergency room.