Pandemic stress responsible for Canadian doctor’s death: family
Dr Karine Dion, who was on leave after she became overwhelmed by the virus, took her own life
The family of a Canadian emergency doctor who took her own life after she became overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic is urging others stressed by the pandemic to take sufficient time off.
While Dr Karine Dion, from Quebec, never caught COVID-19, her death on 3 January was indirectly caused by the virus, according to her family.
In March last year she became so stressed she didn’t sleep for days, worried by the heavy toll on Italian doctors as COVID-19 cases overwhelmed the health system. She was eventually hospitalised after a breakdown.
Dr Dion, 35, went back to work, but had been on stress leave during recent weeks.
