Actress Sandrine Bonnaire says this in an interview Parisian, Thursday, November 30th, a public nursing home in Charente-Maritime “medical negligence” In her opinion, this led to her mother’s death in August and confirms her intention to file a complaint. “I decided to raise my voice to raise the alarm”explains the actress on her Instagram account three days after the broadcast a video in which she announced her decision to file a complaint without providing information about the facility targeted.

“My mother was in a public nursing home in Charente-Maritime (…) We noticed that there was no toilet paper, that cleaning wasn’t always done and the bed linen wasn’t changed.”lists the actress in the columns of Parisian. “My mother could barely walk (…) but several times the carafe of water was placed at the other end of the room. Impossible for them to use (…). Losing a mother is no small thing. Knowing that she left like that is unacceptable.”She adds, making sure she complained to the facility.

“It took us several months to put the elements together”

“I can no longer fight for my mother who is no longer here, but I want to do it to change the way we care for our elders.”explains Sandrine Bonnaire for whom “We need more resources, definitely a salary increase, so that the employees can work properly”. “There are a lot of people who tried to fight but had to give up”She adds.

For Sandrine Bonnaire, “It was medical negligence that led to his death. It took us several months to put the elements together. My mother was not sick, she was 84 years old.”. Sandrine Bonnaire’s agent did not respond to a query from Agence France-Presse on Friday. The prosecutor’s office in Saintes (Charente-Maritime) could not immediately confirm the filing of a complaint.

These allegations come almost two years after the Orpea scandal, which erupted in January 2022 following the publication of the book investigation The gravediggers, by journalist Victor Castanet, about cases of mistreatment of residents of the private retirement home group. After this scandal The executive announced tightening controls on both public and private nursing homes. from regional health authorities (ARS) and departmental councils.

The world with AFP