Depressed medical student kills self on doctors day

Vadodara: In a tragic incident, an MBBS student took his own life inside his hostel room in the city on Thursday when the country was celebrating National Doctors’ Day. Deeparam Jhingar, 25, hung himself with a wire in the afternoon when he was alone in the room. This is the second suicide by MBBS student in the city in the past two months.
While the deceased didn’t leave any suicide note behind, police said that investigations revealed that Jhingar was depressed. “Jhingar was suffering from depression and was also under medication for some time. His father had been staying with him for past few days as his condition wasn’t improving,” said V N Mahida, police inspector, Raopura police station.
A native of Rajasthan, Jhingar was in the last year of his medical studies in Baroda Medical College. “He was under pressure due to academics and exams,” Mahinda added.
In May this year, a 22-year-old student of Gotri GMERS Hospital too had committed suicide by hanging himself in the hostel room.
The police had said that Siddharth Bhadrecha had left a suicide note wherein he mentioned that he was under stress. He had been relieved of his Covid duty just five days before he ended his life.