Patient dies after falling from sixth floor of Bogura hospital; probe under way
A patient named Mst Shirin, 65, has died after falling from the sixth floor of Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College (SZMC) Hospital in Bogura. She fell from the sixth floor of the hospital's medicine department at around 7:30pm on Saturday (14 November) and died.
The deceased, Shirin, was the wife of Solayman Hossain of the Jhopgari area of Bogura town.
Her husband said Shirin was admitted to the sixth floor of the hospital's medicine department on 12 October with various age-related physical complications. On Saturday evening, he left her to offer prayers, and during that time she fell through the Thai-glass window beside the stairs of the north block on the sixth floor. She died afterwards.
Ibrahim Ali, officer-in-charge of Bogura Sadar Police Station, said an investigation is under way to determine the actual cause of the incident, though it preliminarily appears to be an accident. The body has been kept at the morgue for an autopsy.
