RML junior doc found dead at his residence

A junior resident doctor of Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling of his residence in central Delhi’s Old Rajender Nagar on Monday.

The police said that deceased Siddarth Shankar Mahapatra, a first-year post graduate student of the department of anaesthesiology at the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in RML hospital, was a resident of Odisha and was sharing a flat with two other junior doctors.

Probe suggested that Mahapatra was under stress because he was unable to cope up with the pressure at the hospital. The incident came to light when one of his roommates returned from night duty on Monday morning at around 8.30 am and found Mahapatra hanging from the ceiling. The other junior doctor, who was also attached with the same hospital, had gone to his native village and Mahapatra was alone in the room, said the police.

“On reaching the spot

Police claimed to have found no suicide note at the spot but said that they have found a written ‘note’ which indicated that he was suffering from depression. The deceased was a resident of Odisha.

we found the doctor hanging from the fan hook in the ceiling. It is suspected that he committed suicide,” a senior police official said. The police claimed to have found no suicide note at the spot, but said that it has found a written “note” which indicated that he was suffering from depression.

“It exactly cannot be called a suicide note. Prima facie, it seems that he was depressed,” a senior police official said of the purported note. The note read: “How materialistic this world is and everything is perishable.”

According to his colleagues, Mahapatra was apparently unable to cope up with the work stress at the hospital. The police said that they are yet to ascertain whether he took the extreme step due to personal or professional reasons.