Covid patient dies by suicide in hosp

Prayagraj. A 28-year-old man, who had tested positive for Covid-19 and was admitted to the SRN hospital, died by suicide on Friday.
According to reports, the patient was a resident of Fatehpur. He reportedly slashed his wrist and succumbed to his injury in the Covid ICU of the hospital on Friday afternoon. Around the same time, an elderly woman who had also tested positive for Covid-19 died at the SRN hospital.
The man was admitted to the Hospital on July 21 in ward number ten.He was suffering from a kidney ailment and was undergoing dialysis at the hospital. He is said to have gone to the bathroom on Friday morning where he died by suicide.
After noticing that the patient had been gone for an unusually long period of time, other patients and hospital staff opened the bathroom door and found the man lying in a pool of blood. He was rushed to Covid ICU where he died around 3pm.
“The man cut his wrist in the bathroom on Friday morning and was admitted to the Covid ICU where he died in the afternoon”, said nodal officer of SRN Hospital’s corona ward Dr Sujit Verma
Principal of MLN Medical College Dr SP Singh said, “The patient was suffering from a kidney ailment. We tried to save him by giving blood but unfortunately he died.”