New Delhi: A 37-year-old journalist undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at the AIIMS Trauma Centre died allegedly after jumping off the fourth floor of the hospital building on Monday afternoon, police said.
The journalist worked with a Hindi daily and was a resident of northeast Delhi's Bhajanpura, they said.
The incident took place at around 2 pm and the man was rushed to the hospital's ICU where doctors tried to revive him, a doctor said on condition of anonymity.
According to Devender Arya, Deputy Commissioner of Police (southwest), the journalist was admitted to the COVID-19 ward at the Trauma Centre on June 24 after testing positive for the virus.
The press note released by AIIMS said that the journo was making significant recovery from his COVID symptoms. It said the "he was stable on room air today" and was to be shifted to general ward from the ICU. He had undergone surgery for frontal lobe meningioma (a type of brain tumour) at GB Pant Hospital New Delhi in March this year, the release said.
"While he was in JPNATC for treatment of COVID-19, he was having bouts of disorientation for which he was seen by neurologist and psychiatrist and put on medication," the release said, adding that the family members were regularly counselled regarding his condition.
It said that at around 1.55 pm today he ran out of TC-1 where he was admitted and hospital attendants ran after him and tried to stop him. "He ran to the fourth floor where he broke a windowpane and jumped out. He was immediately moved to the ICU in the trauma center in an ambulance. He later succumbed to his injuries at 3.35 pm on July 6, 2020," the release added.
(With inputs from ANI and PTI)
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