After waves of deaths during the pandemic, France’s care homes face a legal reckoning

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After waves of deaths during the pandemic, France’s care homes face a legal reckoning
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Grieving families across France are increasingly turning to lawyers to try to determine why almost half the country's nearly 30,000 COVID-19 deaths hit residents of nursing homes

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.In this photo taken June 5, 2020, Monette Hayoun, left, shows a photo of her late severely disabled 85-year-old brother, Meyer, center in the picture, flanked with her parents, during an interview in Ivry sur Seine, south of Paris. Her brother, who lived in a care home, died recently.The muffled, gagging sounds in the background of the phone call filled Monette Hayoun with dread.

As families flock back to nursing homes that first reopened to limited visits in April and more widely this month, thousands no longer have mothers, fathers, grandparents and siblings to hug and to hold. To stave off infections, many homes sealed themselves off. In France, the government closed access to the country’s 7,400 medicalized facilities for the most dependent older adults on March 11, six days before putting the entire country in lockdown. But by then, the coronavirus already was starting to take its toll.A fat yellow file of complaints on the desk of Paris lawyer Fabien Arakelian is one measure of the fury of families determined to get answers.

Mokiejewski has set up a support group for families seeking redress called the 9,471 Collective, named for the number of care-home deaths on May 5, when the group was founded. She acknowledges that evidence-gathering could be a challenge. As a child, Meyer had contracted diphtheria and meningitis, and raging fevers damaged his brain. He had a knack for memory games and was able to recite family birthdates and phone numbers, but couldn’t alert people when he was thirsty or hungry. On the sliding scale used in France to measure dependency, Meyer was graded GIR 1, reserved for people in beds and wheelchairs who require continual care.

Robert says the home’s doctor called the afternoon of Meyer’s death to say he suspected he was falling sick himself with COVID-19 and was leaving. But first, he promised to put Meyer on an intravenous drip because Robert was concerned his brother was too weak to eat or drink and was becoming dehydrated.Robert says that when he asked about the drip, “He told me, `I gave the order but I don’t know if it was done.

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