Patient Shirin Begum Dies After Falling From Sixth-Floor Window Without Grille at Bogura Hospital
A patient has died after falling through a sixth-floor window without a grille at Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital in Bogura. The incident happened at around 8 pm on Saturday in the Silimpur area of Bogura town.
The patient who died was Shirin Begum, 65. She was a resident of the Jhopgari area on the outskirts of Bogura town.
Police said Shirin Begum was admitted to the medicine department on the sixth floor of the hospital on Thursday afternoon for headache and fever. She was undergoing treatment there.
Her husband was with her at the hospital, hospital and police sources said.
Hospital and police sources said that on Saturday night her husband left Shirin Begum to go to a mosque to offer Esha prayers. At that time, Shirin Begum accidentally fell through the open window. She died on the spot.
Lal Mia, in-charge of the Silimpur police outpost, said the woman fell to her death accidentally because the window had no grille. Police recovered the body and sent it to the hospital morgue for an autopsy.
The hospital's deputy director, Md Monjur-e-Murshed, said the police were looking into the matter. The hospital administration did not want to comment at this stage, and necessary action would be taken after receiving the police's opinion.
