French doctor continues to be tested for poisoning 30 patients, 12 fatal

A former anesthesiologist has tested in the city of Bezannson, in Eastern France, accused of deliberate poisoning of 30 people, including 12 patients who have died.

53-year-old Frederick Piachir, considered by his colleagues to be a highly talented practitioner, was first investigated eight years ago when he was suspected of poisoning patients in two clinics in the city between 2008 and 2017.

Despite the serious accusations against him, Pochir remains at large supervision and told French radio on Monday that he “has no evidence of poisoning.”

The process should last more than three months and include more than 150 civil parties representing 30 alleged casualties.

The allegations of poisoning appeared in January 2017, when a 36-year-old patient called Sandra Simard, who was otherwise healthy, underwent spine surgery and her heart stopped beating.

Since the intensive doctor failed to revive her, Frederick Pochir made her injection and the patient got into a coma and survived. Intravenous drugs used to treat it then show concentrations of potassium 100 times more than expected dose and the alarm sounds with local prosecutors.

Another “seriously unfavorable event”, including a 70-year-old man, happened within days when Mr. Pecheir claims to have found three bags of paracetamol that were forged after giving general anesthetics.

Pecir said that at the time he was framed, but a few weeks later he was put under an official investigation.

One of G -n’s lawyers said he was waiting for eight years to finally prove his innocence, and the former anesthesiologist told RTL radio on Monday that it was a chance to expose “all the maps on the table.”

“After leaving, they still had (serious adverse events) and cardiac arrests. When I left in March 2017, they had nine more declared afterwards,” he told RTL Radio.

The researchers then examined other serious adverse events from 2008, involving patients aged four to 89 years, in the two major health centers where he worked in Besanson-Franco-Komte Polyclinic and the Saint-Vincent clinic.

In 2009, three patients without a history of heart disease had to be resuscitated to Polyclinic Franche-Comté during mild surgery.

Twelve suspicious cases have been identified involving patients who cannot be resuscitated, including several who cannot be explained.

Damien Yiechlen was the first fatality, in October 2008 at the age of 53, he entered the St. Vincent clinic for routine kidney surgery and died after cardiac arrest. The tests later revealed that he had received a potentially lethal dose of lidocaine drug.

“It’s horrifying. You can’t imagine the effect it had on my family,” his daughter Amandin told the French media. “It is unthinkable that this can happen and that so many people have been affected for so many years, from 2008 to 2017.”

Frédéric Péchier comes from a family of healthcare professionals; His father was also an anesthesiologist.

Prosecutors claim that he fished intravenous medicines to cause cardiac arrests as a means of revenge against colleagues. He is said to have been the “ordinary denominator” in all cases of poisoning.

The trial will continue until December and the defendant will remain at large, under judicial supervision. If found guilty, he will face life in prison.