THE CASE OF A JUNIOR MEDICAL DOCTOR WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE

While I was scrolling down and trying to keep abreast of the latest newsfeed on social media, I accidentally came across reading one intriguing article which literally piqued my interest and it sort of evoked my instant recollections of the two prominent musicians (Chris Cornell of Audioslave & Chester Bennington of Linkin Park) who had a prolonged history of struggling with chronic depression throughout their lives. It was about the ongoing case of a junior medical doctor who worked at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham (England) named "Dr. Vaishnavi Kumar" where she was reported to have committed suicide in June 2022 due to the severe effect of toxicity at her workplace, and her father has been relentlessly demanding an utter justice for her daughter’s untimely death since then.

To certain people out there, addressing the so-called "Mental Health Disorder" may still appear to be something taboo and inconvenient to be discussed openly, yet, many of us often times possess a tendency to underestimate or even dismiss the crucial impact of the role that mental health plays in our lives, especially from the aspects of dealing with our day-to-day routines. Besides, one of the most contributing factors which tend to escalate such a high degree of employee turnover in any industries is associated with the amount of conduciveness inflicted by a work environment. In other words, the more toxic the cultivation of corporate culture manifested in an organization, the more frequent the replacement of hiring new recruits will take place in a matter of days.

To begin with, the aforementioned case of a young medical doctor’s sudden death and its aftermath was among a series of solemn issues subject to the six-week rapid review led by Professor Mike Bewick following a perpetual sequence of damning allegations which was aired on BBC Newsnight in June 2022. According to one particular source of information retrieved, it was stated that the female Indian doctor decided to take her own life after feeling "belittled" at her workplace, which was perceived as the type of bullying case for us to be concerned with since it could trigger a never-ending episode of mental health struggles to the point where the victim would end up committing suicide. In reference to the additional details of her impromptu demise, it was further revealed that when she felt overwhelmingly distressed by the unpleasant work ambiance at a hospital she worked, a lethal cocktail of medication was identified to be the primary cause which was something she consumed and eventually, a group of ambulance team failed to rescue her as she took her last breath at City Hospital on June 22^nd 2022.

Obviously, the above incident pertaining to a mental health problem could immediately prompt our eye brows to start questioning how such an impact of toxic workplace in the most extreme case can inflict a profound severity on a person’s mental health condition; resulting in an innocent soul to be in a dire state of suffering from suicidal thoughts. Nevertheless, following the audacity of decision to end her life in June 2022, the junior medical doctor was also found to have left pieces of final words on a note she wrote, in which she went saying that "she was sorry to her dearest beloved mother, and she could blame the whole thing on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham" (an exact location where her dead body was discovered following her drug prescriptions with an excessive amount of alcohol consumed as the ultimate consequence of her mental health struggle, which stemmed from the adverse effect of her workplace toxicity).