Patient ends life by jumping from 3rd floor of hospital

NASHIK: A 48-year-old man allegedly committed suicide on Saturday by jumping from the third floor of the city-based government referral hospital, where he was undergoing dialysis since the last week due to kidney failure, police said. The deceased, identified as Jawaharlal Ramkisan Gupta, a resident of Shriram Nagar in Ghoti near Nashik, ended his life around 10.30 am, an official of Bhadrakali police station said. Gupta had suffered kidney failure and he was undergoing dialysis treatment at the hospital, the official said.