Ehpad: can collective complaints against Orpea or Korian succeed!

More than a hundred complaints should be filed against the two large groups of private nursing homes, according to lawyer Me Sarah Saldmann. However, the future of these complaints remains uncertain, given similar procedures in recent years and the large number of complainants.Me Sarah Saldmann is now a very busy lawyer. For the past few days, this specialist in criminal law and family law has been awash in requests from people wishing to file a complaint against Orpea and Korian, two large groups of private nursing homes .

 “For Orpea, I already have more than 150 family reports. For Korian, we were at around thirty last week. But I continue to receive emails every day, explains Me Saldmann. At this stage, we can say that a hundred complaints will be filed against Orpea. For Korian, it is still a little early to give a figure", adds the lawyer, specifying that these grouped complaints will be filed for "involuntary homicides, failure to assist a person in danger, deliberate endangerment of the life of others or negligent violence”.

Macron offers "concrete security guarantees" to Putin, the judge "available to commit"!

Emmanuel Macron  said he proposed to Vladimir Putin on Monday to "build concrete security guarantees" for all the states involved in the Ukrainian crisis, after a five-hour face-to-face meeting in Moscow with Vladimir Putin.

 Maintaining stability in Ukraine

"President Putin assured me of his readiness to commit to this logic and of his desire to maintain the stability and territorial integrity of Ukraine," added the French president during a press conference. common, evoking "terms of convergence" between Russia and France, without detailing them.

For his part, Vladimir Putin estimated on Monday that some of the ideas of his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to defuse the Russian-Western crisis over Ukraine can make it possible to move forward, after more than five hours of talks in Moscow. . "Some of his ideas, his proposals (...) are possible to lay the foundations for common progress", said Mr. Putin, during a joint press conference, while judging it premature to expose them publicly. 

Covid-19: hospitalizations of children under 5 quadruple in New York!

The Omicron variant continues to spread in the United States, where health authorities are seeing an increase in the number of children hospitalized. The New York State Department of Health is “closely monitoring an upward trend in pediatric hospitalizations associated with Covid-19  ,” according to a statement released Friday. “The biggest increase concerns the city of New York with admissions which quadrupled” between the week of December 5 and that of December 19, it is specified. Half of these admissions concern children under the age of 5, who are therefore not yet old enough to be vaccinated.  

The number of Covid-19 cases in the United States continues to rise, with nearly 190,000 new daily cases over the past seven days on average, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. The arrival of the new variant and the end-of-year celebrations, synonymous with travel and family reunions, caused a rush on tests in the United States, where it is difficult in some places to obtain it.