Patient dies jumping off DMCH building

A patient has died after jumping from a building of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).

He died around 3:30 pm on Friday while undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Deceased Riazul Islam Rony Bepari, 27, was the son of Dulal Bepari from Monwar Khadi village in Sadar upazila of Chandpur district. 

Dulal said they admitted their son Rony, an honors student in Chandpur, to Dhaka Medical College Hospital on September 26 due to his mental sickness.

He jumped from a new seven-storey building of the facility around 9 pm on the following day and received serious injuries, he said.

Critically injured Rony was first admitted to the emergency department and later, shifted to the ICU following the deterioration of his condition where he died today, Dulal added.

DMCH police camp in-charge (inspector) Md Bachchu Mia also confirmed the matter of death and said the police station concerned was informed about this.

Quazi Al Amin/SU