VIDEO – Emmanuelle Lebrun committed suicide on June 24, 2016. In a letter to her family, she questioned her difficult working conditions.
The suicide of Emmanuelle Lebrun on June 24, 2016, nurse in the neonatology department of Jacques Monod hospital in Le Havre (Normandy), is linked to her working conditions. The hospital’s joint committee recognized this desperate gesture as a “service accident”. A relief for her family who had received a letter in which she described very difficult working conditions.
This recognition comes after one year of an administrative survey carried out among the staff. These investigations, requested by the unions, had brought to light the unease of caregivers and degraded working conditions. For the unions, the conclusion of the survey shows that “the psychosocial risk is very real” in this hospital in Le Havre.
The uneasiness of a profession
The establishment has realized this. An external service provider was appointed to work with the team of the neonatal service on a new organization of the service taking into account psychosocial risks. This project is currently underway.
The case of Emmanuelle Lebrun is not isolated. In the summer of 2016, five nurses died. Between February and March 2017, three other caregivers committed suicide at their workplace. This “epidemic” had aroused turmoil in the profession and alerted the population to their distress.
Find the program L’Invité Santé de Pourquoidocteur
with Karim Mameri (National Order of Nurses)
broadcast on February 9, 2017:
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