New revelations on the Ihu de Strasbourg pigs affair | EUROtoday

HAS The continuation of our revelations revealed this Wednesday, May 21, the Ministry of Higher Subsertainment, Research and Innovation determined to grab the General Inspectorate of Education, Sport and Research (IGESR) to research the case of the Ihu de Strasbourg pigs. Jointly, the Ministry of Health has seized the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (IGAS).

Finally, the Strasbourg University Hospitals (HUS), for his or her half, introduced that they launched an inner administrative inquiry and that they didn’t exclude seizing the general public prosecutor.

In our survey, we had uncovered critical shortcomings in medical ethics and disturbing practices that may be dangerous to sufferers. On March 14, 24 and 26, Professor Christian Debry, director common of IHU, determined to cancel the exams of a number of dozen sufferers within the medical imaging service (GIE), in order that the workers, in restricted workforce, could make, as a substitute, MRI on pigs and a corpse. These experiences have been notably carried out as a part of analysis contracts with two firms, one German, the opposite French. The director, not having sufficient radio manipulators, gave precedence to personal pre-clinical analysis experiences, with out an emergency, to the detriment of the well being of the sufferers.

This e-mail of the director common of IHU after publication of our investigation

However, the individuals who needed to take these exams are, for essentially the most half, affected by most cancers, some at superior levels. According to our info and at a time after we write these traces, a dozen of them has nonetheless not obtained new conferences, greater than two months after the primary cancellations. Doctors, radio manipulators and secretaries of the imaging service, have continued to alert their hierarchy, but in addition the ARS Grand Est, the labor inspectorate to the overall administration of the Strasbourg University Hospitals (HUS), about these arbitrations which they thought of unacceptable. Alerts that sadly didn’t be sufficient to place an finish to those practices since new cancellations have been scheduled for the approaching days.

May 22, the day after our publication on the web site of PointProfessor Christian Debry despatched an e mail to all of the IHU groups, with our investigation, in attachment. In this message, he critically challenges the workers of the imaging service, who after verification on our half, will not be one of many recipients of the missive. He affirms later that the article is barely the relay of allegations, inaccurate info and defamatory remarks “. Which is funny since our information is partly based on his own words.

Remarks that were made in an email of March 15 which he sent to the Deputy Director General of the University Hospitals of Strasbourg (HUS), Céline Dugast. He assumes black on white the cancellation of patient meetings to carry out the experiences on pigs.

In the afternoon of May 22, it was the turn of the general management of the Strasbourg University Hospitals (HUS) to react to this “pig affair”. In a press release, it notably assures that the HUS, if they are indeed one of the founding members of the Institute, have no unilateral decision -making power on the functioning of IHU: “It can’t thus be maintained, for polemist functions, the phantasm that the HUS labored for the adoption of an inner choice on the Institute. The Hus due to this fact firmly dispute the title of the article. »»

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Problem: it’s Céline Dugast, Deputy Director General of the HUS who in an e mail asks why pigs have been prioritized on the expense of sufferers. And it’s to this e mail that Professor Debry, director common of IHU, responds to justify his choice. Better nonetheless, he proposes that these choices at the moment are taken in collaboration with the HUS: “OK to handle future arbitrations collectively. Well to you. A wonderfully reputable session: the imaging service is in truth an financial curiosity group (GIE) whose HUS maintain 34 % of the shares and the IHU relaxation. In the statutes of the GIE, it’s specified that the HUS administration should be concerned within the choices regarding this service.

Still of their launch of May 22, the HUS claimed to have found the case with the publication of our investigation, two days earlier. While the trade by e-mail regarding the pigs, between Professor Debry and Céline Dugast, dates from March 14 … Obviously, on the Ihu of Strasbourg, as within the common administration of the college hospitals of Strasbourg, no one appears to learn its emails.