A 46-year-old COVID-19 patient has cut his life short when he jumped to death from the second floor of a government-run hospital in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur district in India.
The Press Trust of India reports that this was a second incident reported from Netaji Subhash Chandra Medical College and Hospital in two months.
The undisclosed patient jumped off the second floor of the hospital’s super-speciality wing on Friday and succumbed to his injuries within hours at night, the hospital’s dean Dr P K Kasar told PTI.
The unidentified man hailed from the adjoining Katni district and was admitted to the hospital for COVID-19 treatment.
Kasar said the patient also suffered some psychological ailment.
The patient was examined by a psychiatrist two days ago upon his admission and was also given treatment for it, Kasar said.
In a similar incident on September 4, a 64-year-old man undergoing treatment for coronavirus committed suicide by jumping from the second floor of the hospital.
Prior to this, the staff of the super-speciality wing of the hospital had prevented two infected patients from taking the extreme step.
India has the world’s second-worst COVID-19 experience after the United States.
It has so far as of 10 October registered 7,053,806 cases and 108,371 deaths.
In contrast, America has 7,945,505 cases and 219,282 deaths.
