The Jean-Louis Mégnien association has received testimonies from all French regions, more particularly Paris and Amiens.
Who could imagine the scale of the phenomenon? In six months, the Jean-Louis-Mégnien association received dozen of vibrant testimonials from health professionals describing situations of harassment at work. In all, 200 doctors, nurses and caregivers working in 70 public hospitals told the association that they were harassed by their superiors. The association, formed the day after the suicide of Professor Mégnien, cardiologist at the George Pompidou hospital (Paris), has compiled these testimonies which constitute the first map of France of the mistreatment of hospital staff, published in The Parisian.
Among the cases identified, Paris appears in the lead with 31 declarations of harassment to the association. Next come Amiens (Picardy) with 18 cases, Chateau-du-Loir (Sarthe) with 11 cases, then Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), 7 cases and Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) Lyon (Rhône) and Besançon (Doubs) , 6 cases each. It is a safe bet that this first card should give courage to other health professionals to expose their situation.
“This map shows that the Mégnien case, our colleague who was harassed, is far from isolated. The scale of the phenomenon, everywhere in France, tarnishes the image of the public hospital and constitutes a threat for its future ”, explains Professor Philippe Halimi, head of the radiology department at Pompidou and president of the association, on a daily basis. Parisian.
The Jean-Louis-Mégnien association aims to shed light on a phenomenon that has become structural: in the public hospital, members of the nursing staff are the object of systematic mistreatment.
Measures before the end of the year
For its part, the ministry announced the launch of a consultation on harassment in the hospital. “Measures should see the light of day by the end of the year but we have not had any details on their content – except that they will aim to improve prevention and management of cases” , explained to Whyocteur Professor Bernard Granger, psychiatrist at Cochin hospital a few weeks ago.
According to this doctor, “urgent and serious” cases are numerous. With each time, a flagrant lack of reaction from the health authorities. ” We discussed [au ministère de la Santé] the case of the Saint-Calais hospital (Sarthe), where a health executive ended his life in July. The Regional Health Agency had been alerted on several occasions to the situation; the union had issued a report citing a “tragedy which [lui] seemed inevitable ”, but the ARS did nothing. We could perhaps have prevented this suicide, like that of Jean-Louis Mégnien. “
Finally, it is a global impunity that seems difficult to fight: “In Ambroise Paré and Henri Mondor, there were convictions for moral harassment before the administrative courts without those responsible being worried on the disciplinary level. We see this impunity systematically: it is the harassed person who is stigmatized, while the harasser is protected. “
Find the program L’Invité santé broadcast on Pourquoidocteur
with Prof. Philippe Halimi (Pompidou Hospital) on January 8, 2016
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