In a shocking incident, a medical student has died by suicide at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. This is the fifth such incident since March 20.
According to reports, the victim was the second-year medical student and has been identified as Vikas. He had jumped off the roof of hostel number 19.
Sources said the doctor was earlier admitted to a psychiatry ward as a patient as he was experiencing some mental health issues.
“On 10.08.2020 at about 6 PM information was received from AIIMS hospital that a person had jumped from hostel roof. Upon reaching at the spot, the injured person was promptly moved to Trauma Centre for treatment,” a source was quoted as saying.
The injured person was later declared dead during treatment. During enquiry it was learnt that the deceased took a one hour leave from the ward and allegedly came and jumped from the hostel roof.
He was 2018 batch Medical student and was permanent resident of Bangalore. He was 22 years old.
Earlier, a 32-year-old man was found dead in the bathroom of the hospital’s emergency wing. A resident of Satna in Madhya Pradesh, he had come to hospital for a follow up on his intestinal surgery conducted last year.
A 25-year-old junior doctor had died by suicide at AIIMS-Delhi by jumping off the 10th floor of the hospital building on July 10. According to sources, the doctor was suffering from depression.
A 37-year-old journalist, who was undergoing treatment for coronavirus at the premier institute in Delhi, had killed himself by jumping off the fourth floor of the hospital.
Meanwhile, a total of 196 doctors in the country, majority of them being general practitioners, have died due to COVID-19 so far, said the Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Saturday, requesting the prime minister for his attention on the issue.
“As per the latest data collected by the IMA, our nation has lost 196 doctors, out of which 170 of them are above the age of 50 years, with general practitioners attributing to around 40 per cent of it,” the IMA said expressing concerns over the safety of doctors losing their lives in the fight against the COVID-19 crisis.