In a bizarre incident a 42-year-old HIV-positive patient had attacked and killed a cancer patient at Bombay Hospital on Monday.
The 65-year-old cancer patient, Lilabihari Thakur was died when an HIV patient attacked him with a metal saline bottle stand and smashed on his head. The attacker also injured two more patients who are stable now.
Other patients have denied any provocation from any parts. The attacker was handed over to the police but later admitted to a ward in JJ hospital.
“On Monday morning, my mother had gone downstairs to bring medicines. The attack took place around that time. He hit father thrice with the rod, hurting his head. My father was bleeding profusely,” said Pankaj, who works in a private firm as administrator. He had hit the other two patients on their heads too,” Thakur’s son Pankaj said.
The police said that the attacker became violent and ward boys had to struggle to control him.
“He was so violent three to four men could not control him. Sister Alina Anthony, the nurse who is the complainant, said he was finally pinned down to a chair by several people, given a sedative injection and tied up,” TOI quoted a policeman.
Dr Sagar Sankhle, Bombay Hospital spokesperson expressed their shock over the incident and said that the accused was never been a violent patient.
“The accused had been cooperating with all diagnostic tests and had never showed any violent behaviour until Monday,” Dr Sankhle said adding, “He is a known case of tuberculosis and HIV, and had been admitted here even last year with similar health complaints.”
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