Parents March to Honor Son, Demand Answers One Year After Hospital Death

Fouad, 47, and Jamila Djelal, 45, have not been able to mourn the death of their son who died on November 23, 2018. This Sunday, the couple will march with their eldest daughter at the head of a procession in memory of Fares, from the Condorcet college in Maisons-Alfort where he was a student, to the CHIC, to lay flowers there, reports Le Parisien. "We are not against the doctors, but against the reckless drivers of medicine," says Fouad Djelal. For him, it must never happen again.

The Djelal family plunged into pain on Friday, November 23, 2018 when Fares had been admitted to the CHIC emergency room, on the advice of his doctor because he was complaining of stomach pains. Placed under observation, the teenager had not had any exams until he lost his life. "From the start, I told Dr Amhis it was appendicitis. I should have left," laments Jamila, disheartened.

The Djelal family had filed a complaint against X on November 26, 2018. In the crosshairs, the head of the pediatric surgery department, Dr. Jamil Amhis. Since then, they have been hoping "for sanctions to prevent another tragedy". On Wednesday, November 20, the CHIC management suspended Dr. Amhis on a precautionary basis, preventing him from practicing or being present at the hospital.