Little Zayneb-Cassandra, barely five days old, died this Tuesday, July 15 at the maternity hospital at Jeanne de Flandre hospital in Lille. The Lille prosecution opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the drama.
What happened to the maternity hospital at Jeanne de Flandre hospital in Lille? A five-day infant, little Zayneb-Cassandra died on Tuesday, July 15. It had been found inert in a care chamber of the university hospital center on July 11.
• “A particularly serious exceptional event”
Zayneb-Cassandra was born on Sunday July 6 by Cesarean at the maternity hospital of the Lille CHU. “The birth went very well, but the little one was premature at seven and a half months. After her mother stayed in maternity service, while the baby went to the rainbow service, in neonatal,” said the family to La Voix du Nord.
While the parents are preparing their exit from the hospital with the baby on Friday, July 11, a drama occurs.
In a press release, the Lille prosecution explains that the five-day baby was found inert on the ground in a care chamber of the rainbow neonatalogy, the current neonatalogy care unit.
The CHU describes in a press release the event with great caution, evoking “an exceptional event particularly serious and overwhelming, not linked to the care on Friday” at the end of the morning (…) immediately involving the state of health and the prognosis of a hospitalized child “.
• A “disruptive” child accused by the infant family
The family evokes a good care of the 23 -year -old mother and her child. However, it evokes with La Voix du Nord the presence of a “disruptor” in the premises: a six -year -old child whose mother is hospitalized in the same service.
In declarations to the northern daily daily as well as in France 3 Hauts-de-France, the infant family points to the behavior of the boy, brother of another baby hospitalized to Jeanne de Flandre, who according to them entered the room where the baby was born.
Still according to the family, little Zayneb-Cassandra, who fell on her head, is discovered inanimate, the six-year-old child was on a chair.
The father’s cousin reports to France 3 that the infant was found naked, on the ground, the bloody skull. The child died on Tuesday July 15. “Despite all the efforts of the resuscitation teams initiated immediately and since then, the child unfortunately could not be saved,” said the CHU press release.
• an administrative survey and emergency measures
“Measures of strict limitation of visits within the neonatology units of the Lille University Hospital have been taken as a precaution,” said the hospital, indicating that it also implemented psychological support.
“The circumstances of the drama remaining to clarify,” said the CHU, which specifies having seized the public prosecutor and launched an internal administrative investigation.
• A judicial investigation and an autopsy
An investigation was immediately opened for the causes of injuries, the Lille prosecutor’s office said in BFMTV.
“Many investigations are currently diligent in order to establish exactly the circumstances of the death of the death,” added the public prosecutor, adding that an autopsy was scheduled for Thursday morning.