Police are investigating a case where a patient jumped to his death from the seventh floor of Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) in Nairobi.
The victim was identified as Timothy Kinuthia, a 22-year-old patient at the hospital before the Thursday 1 am incident, which occurred when the other patients were asleep. He had been admitted to ward 7B, where he jumped to the ground floor and died on the spot.
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The guards on duty and security personnel at the hospital said they heard a loud bang, and upon rushing to the scene, they found the victim dead. Police officers processed the scene and moved the body to the mortuary as they launched investigations into the incident.
The hospital has yet to issue a statement, and the circumstances leading to the incident are still unclear. However, what is in public knowledge is that the seventh and eighth floors of the hospital host patients suffering from communicable diseases such as malaria, HIV/Aids, pneumonia and Tuberculosis (TB).
This incident comes barely two weeks after an unidentified man jumped to death from an apartment in the lavish Kileleshwa area in Nairobi. The unfortunate incident captured by the buildings’ CCTV system shows the man alone for about ten minutes before the act, hesitating thrice before jumping off the 15th floor of the apartment.
There is high concern over the increased rate of suicide in Kenya, especially among men. As of the 4th of January 2022, Kenya’s average crude national suicide death rate was estimated at 6.1 per 100,000 populations with a male-to-female ratio of 3:1