Fear of virus: Covid-19 patient commits suicide in Bengaluru hospital

BENGALURU: Do not get scared of Covid and commit suicide, appealed Bengaluru City Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao on Friday.
This comes in the backdrop of the death of a 60-year-old female Covid positive patient, who hanged herself using a saree in the toilet at KC General Hospital in the city in the early hours of Friday. The woman, a native of Kunigal and a resident of Rajagopalnagar, had tested positive for Covid and got admitted in the hospital along with her daughter-in-law and grandson on June 18. “The woman was responding to treatment and did not show any signs of distress. Maybe, she was scared and depressed,” hospitals sources said. She is said to have gone to the toilet around 2.30am and ended her life.
Reacting to the woman’s death, police commissioner Bhaskar Rao appealed to people: “Please do not end your life out of fear of coronavirus, the government is doing everything to save lives.”
This is the third suicide triggered by Covid fear being reported in the city in the recent times. On Monday, a 50-year-old constable attached to the Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP) committed suicide by hanging inside a police bus after he tested positive for Covid. The bus was parked outside the hospital in Madiwala and an officer had gone inside to complete admission-related formalities when the constable ended his life. Earlier, another 50-year-old Covid-positive man had ended his life by jumping from the seventh floor of Victoria Hospital after learning about the death of a fellow patient.