Patient Falls From 7th Floor Of Kolkata Hospital, Critically Injured: Report

According to the police, a hydraulic ladder was that was brought to the spot could not be used as the man threatened to jump after seeing it.

A male patient, who had escaped from his bed at a private hospital at Mullickbazar in the central part of Kolkata and sat on the edge of a cornice on the seventh floor for over two hours, fell off and critically injured himself on Saturday, a police official said.

Sujit Adhikary had sneaked to the cornice through a gap in the glass window in the ward where he was under treatment at the Institute of Neuroscience. He then sat on the edge precariously as anxious bystanders looked on and the fire brigade, police, and hospital authorities frantically tried to bring him down.

He fell off at around 1:10 pm and hit the cornice of the floors below at least twice before landing on the ground, the official said.

He was "very very critically injured" and his skull, rib cage, and left hand were badly damaged, a hospital official said.