Published January 20, 2025

Mélissa Gélinas LJI Reporter

A 23-year-old French man died tragically at the Hull hospital on the night of Monday, January 13. He was passing through Outaouais, accompanied by his friend/colleague to work in the community as an intern.

The young man had begun to develop health problems in the previous few weeks. According to his friend, he felt very weak and could no longer get up. “He had trouble eating and when he stood up, he felt dizzy,” he explained.

When he showed up at the Hull hospital, the young man was quickly taken care of by the nurses, who gave him an electrocardiogram. “It took about an hour and 30 minutes to do the tests,” his colleague pointed out. “However, the wait time for the results was very long,” he added. “We arrived at the emergency room at 9 pm on Saturday and they decided to take charge of the first results of the electrocardiogram from 6 am the next day.”

In the meantime, blood tests were done. “An hour later, when the results were in, they got really worried and decided to keep him in the hospital,” said his friend.

He was subsequently put on oxygen and continued to undergo a battery of tests. According to the information gathered, his condition was stable. “During the two or three hours we were visiting him, he had a large number of panic attacks,” commented his friend. “However, the nurse who was looking after him at the time said that his condition was stable and that there was no reason to worry.”

This did not prevent the young man’s death, however. “The Hull hospital called his girlfriend in France, because that was the emergency number on his phone,” his friend explained. “She’s the one who informed me […],” he adds. According to doctors, the young man may have suffered from infective endocarditis. The friend and the parents of the young man who died will have to go to the hospital to get more information on this sad situation.

“I think that if they’d had his blood sample from the beginning, it would have saved us the 10 hours or more of waiting and he could have been taken care of more quickly,” his friend said.

Photo: Ambulance on the road (April 19, 2021) (MG) Photo: Facebook page Coopérative des paramedics de l’Outaouais

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