Nurse’s body recovered from locked toilet at Kolkata’s state-run NRS Hospital

West Bengal health minister Sharadwat Mukherjee and top police officers rushed to the hospital when the news broke on Thursday morning

A 30-year-old nurse was found dead in a locked toilet at the state-run NRS Hospital in Kolkata on Wednesday night, police said on Thursday morning, adding that a post-mortem was underway to determine the cause of death. West Bengal health minister Sharadwat Mukherjee and top police officers rushed to the hospital when the news broke.

Police said a post-mortem was underway to determine the cause of death.

A police officer said the nurse was on duty on Wednesday night when she disappeared around 9.40pm. “While looking for her, the hospital staff found the door of a toilet locked for an unusually long time. They shouted her name, but there was no response. They broke the door and found her lying inside,” the officer said, requesting anonymity.

He added that some empty vials of anaesthetic injection and a syringe were found inside the toilet. “Doctors declared the nurse dead upon examination. No suicide note was found anywhere. The nurse’s phone has been seized to check the call records. Her husband has been asked to come here,” the officer said.

Police said the nurse was found dead on the first floor of the maternity ward at the 150-year-old hospital and that the zone was cordoned off.

The hospital staff said that the nurse got married in March to a man whose family lives in Delhi. The nurse’s family lives in East Midnapore district. The hospital staff said the nurse lived with her husband in a rented flat near Kolkata.