Kolkata: Mentally-ill patient jumps from hospital's eight floor, extremely critical
A patient at the Institute of Neuroscience Hospital in Kolkata suffered serious injuries after jumping from the eighth floor of the building. According to reports, Sudhir Adhikari, who is mentally unsound, managed to escape from the hospital's window and sat on the edge of a cornice on the eighth level where he was receiving treatment.
The rescuers hurriedly attempted to bring him down while the fire department, police, and medical staff were also called. However, the patient refused to budge. A hydraulic ladder was then brought to bring him down, but every time it was put near him, he tried to jump. He was admitted to the hospital, where he is stated to be in a critical condition currently.
Kolkata, West Bengal | A patient has climbed out of a ward to sit on a highrise edge of the Institute of NeuroScience Hospital and is showing unwillingness to get down. Hydraulic ladder is reportedly being brought to bring him down pic.twitter.com/QWRhyhbhxq
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The patient, according to PTI, fell off at 1:10 pm and struck the cornice of the floors below at least thrice before landing on the ground. It stated, quoting a medical official, that he is "very gravely injured," with severe damage to his cranium, rib cage, and left hand. Meanwhile, a crowd gathered outside the hospital to see the man.
"He wasn't saying anything as to why he was sitting there, but was not allowing people in uniform to approach him," fire officer Shubhankar Ghosh was quoted by ANI as saying. Earlier, Adhikari's family had been attempting to reason with him, but they couldn't convince him to retreat as well. After the tragedy, the hospital locked its main entrance.
