According to La Provence newspaper, an 85-year-old woman with dementia was brought to the emergency room of a hospital in Aix-en-Provence by her daughter Claudine on February 23 because of seizures.
On February 25, the elderly woman, who was reported missing from the hospital on the night of February 23, was found dead by her daughter in a garbage container in the basement of the same hospital.
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Claudine, who brought the elderly woman to the hospital, said she went to get a drink while her mother was being treated, and when she returned about an hour later, her mother had been moved from the emergency room.
Claudine returned home after the nurses told her that they could not take her to the department where her mother was being treated, and she received a phone call from the hospital and learned that her mother had disappeared.
Arriving at the hospital, Claudine asked the administration to look at the security cameras.
The hospital management reported that the employee in charge of the security cameras was on leave and that they did not have the password to access the cameras.
Claudine started searching for her missing mother by posting around the hospital and on social media.
On February 25, Claudine, who had been searching near the hospital with her cousin, a firefighter, found her mother’s body in a garbage container in the hospital basement.
While the incident drew reactions on social media, the Aix-en-Provence Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation.
Claudine blames the hospital for her mother’s death for not giving her access to security cameras.
