A Besançon doctor is being prosecuted following hemorrhoid operations that patients accuse him of having botched, public prosecutor Étienne Manteaux said on Monday.
Twelve patients incriminate the surgeon
Confirming information from The Republican East the Besançon prosecutor announced that he had opened a judicial investigation on Thursday for unintentional injuries “following a criminal complaint and five civil proceedings seeking compensation concerning facts related to hemorrhoid operations leading to incontinence”.
In an email addressed to theAFP, Étienne Manteaux added that he had since received three additional criminal complaints.
According to the regional daily, 12 patients from Doubs and the neighboring department of Haute-Saône incriminate Doctor Luc Clemens for interventions carried out between 2017 and 2023 at the Polyclinique de Franche-Comté.
This proctologist surgeon (specialist in the anus and rectum) has in certain cases re-operated on patients, without managing to improve their condition, according to the newspaper.
” A nightmare “
A patient quoted by the daily says he has lived since ” a nightmare “.
“My sphincter was irreversibly damaged. While I should have healed in four weeks, I am still going through hell, seven years later. I have terrible burns, blisters, I have to wear protection all the time. I can’t go out so I don’t have to go to the bathroom in a hurry. I lost my job. My partner left me in 2019. I have to take pills to sleep. »
According to The Republican East, patients ended up turning to specialized hospital services in Lyon, Metz or Paris, “to be told that they were too affected by their initial surgery to consider a return to a normal situation”.
