Physicians must take the expert consultation process could lead to the arrest of care of Vincent Lambert, a quadriplegic in a vegetative state, decided today the Administrative Court of Appeal of Nancy.
The court thus overturned a first instance decision of October 2015, concerning the former nurse of 39 years, victim of a road accident in 2008, and whose fate tears the family. The court “orders the Reims University Hospital to give the practitioner” in charge of Vincent Lambert “the means to continue the consultation process” college of experts, which must decide on possible treatments stop. This decision “implies only that the collegial process be resumed in the Reims University Hospital,” but “does not prejudge the outcome of this procedure”, however, said the administrative court of appeal in a statement.
in July, the doctor of the University Hospital of Reims Daniela Simon, had stopped the collegiate procedure, arguing that the necessary climate of serenity was not met. However, there will “never serenity” about the fate of Vincent Lambert, had estimated in late May, the public rapporteur of the appeal court. The court also said Thursday that the suspension of this procedure, “indefinitely”, was “illegal.” Vincent Lambert’s wife, Rachel, and one of his nephews are in favor of stopping treatment. Conversely, the parents of quadriplegic, devout Catholics, were fiercely opposed to
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