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Woman jumps off from fifth-floor hospital window in Pune
Son of deceased was admitted at the hospital, police said.
PUNE: A 36-year-old housewife on Monday morning jumped from the window of the fifth-floor room of a hospital, where her 13-year-old diabetic son was undergoing treatment, according to police.
The deceased left a note saying “no one to be blamed for her act”, said a police official.
The woman had lost her husband to cancer three months ago, according to the information provided to the police by the deceased’s mother. The family, according to police, had recently returned from abroad.
The victim’s 62-year-old mother was with her in the hospital room when the former’s 13-year-old son started complaining of discomfort, according to senior inspector Balkrushna Kadam of Samarth police station.
“When the child complained of physical pain, the woman sent her mother out of the room to seek medical help before taking the extreme step in front of her son. The family is in shock to give more details,” said Kadam.
According to the police, the husband of the deceased, was a businessman and their teenage son, a diabetic, had been in hospital for the past 2-3 days.
“The 13-year-old boy, son of the deceased woman, is under our care for the management of steroid dependent nephrotic syndrome since 2016. He was diagnosed to have diabetes mellitus in 2015, for which he is being managed by a paediatric endocrinologist. On June 21, he was brought to the paediatric emergency department with complaints of neck pain. He was admitted for observation and monitoring and appropriate management was started,” read a statement from the hospital. The hospital staff provided an isolated cubicle and a nasal swab test for Covid-19 was performed on him.
The fifth-floor window of the hospital room did not have a safety grill. The incident was recorded at Samarth police station in an accidental death report.
