Nursing student serving at Covid hospital in Rajkot found dead

A nursing student working at a Covid-19 hospital on the campus of the state government-run Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Hospital was found dead in her hostel room late Tuesday evening. Police have lodged a case and, prima facie, suspect it to be a case of death by suicide.

Sujata Chauhan (22), a third-year nursing student at HN Shukla Group of Colleges, a private nursing college, was working at the dedicate Covid-19 hospital on the campus of the PUD Hospital. She was found hanging at her room in New Girl Hostel near the hospital around 8 pm, Pradyuman Nagar police said Wednesday.

Police said the matter came to light after her roommate Sonu, also a nursing student working at the Covid-19 hospital, returned to the hostel around 8.15 pm Tuesday after completing her shift.

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When Chauhan didn’t respond to Sonu’s repeated knocks on the door and phone calls, other nurses assembled and broke the door open and found her dead, police said.

A native of Lakhtar village in Jamnagar taluka, Chauhan had joined the Covid-19 hospital as a nurse around four months ago and was allotted a room in the New Girl Hostel of the hospital.