CHANDIGARH: A 30-year-old hanged herself to death in a psychiatry ward at the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) on Sunday afternoon. She was suffering with depression due to which she was admitted to the hospital. She was a resident of Derabassi, Mohali in Punjab.
Psychiatry ward incharge at GMCH Dr Priti Arun said, “The patient was admitted in the emergency on September 2. After she attempted suicide by consuming rat poison. The patient was then referred to our ward where she was admitted on September 4.”
Dr Priti said, “This was her second suicide attempt. She hanged herself in the ward’s washroom.”
Sources inform that the patient used a ‘dupatta’ and hung herself on a shower.
“We have security personnel round the clock outside the ward,” said Dr Priti. There are 30 beds in the ward and one guard at each gate of the ward. But there is no woman attendant inside the ward.
In 2015, a 31-year-old man allegedly committed suicide after jumping from the fifth floor of GMCH while he was in the OPD. He was also suffering with depression.
Psychiatry ward incharge at GMCH Dr Priti Arun said, “The patient was admitted in the emergency on September 2. After she attempted suicide by consuming rat poison. The patient was then referred to our ward where she was admitted on September 4.”
Dr Priti said, “This was her second suicide attempt. She hanged herself in the ward’s washroom.”
Sources inform that the patient used a ‘dupatta’ and hung herself on a shower.
“We have security personnel round the clock outside the ward,” said Dr Priti. There are 30 beds in the ward and one guard at each gate of the ward. But there is no woman attendant inside the ward.
In 2015, a 31-year-old man allegedly committed suicide after jumping from the fifth floor of GMCH while he was in the OPD. He was also suffering with depression.
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