Police are investigating an incident where a patient committed suicide by jumping from a seventh floor ward at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH)
According to reports, the incident happened on Thursday at 1am when most patients were asleep.
The patient had been admitted to ward 7B on the seventh floor of the hospital when he jumped to the ground floor and died on the spot upon landing on a pavement.
Security personnel at the hospital said they heard a loud bang on the ground floor and on checking, they found the patient had already died.
They called the police who processed the scene and moved the body to the mortuary.
The hospital is yet to issue a statement on how long the patient had been at the facility.
It is not the first time that such an incident has happened at the hospital and from that floor amid calls for more measures to address the trend.
The seventh and eighth floors of the hospital host patients suffering from communicable diseases such as malaria, HIV/Aids, pneumonia and Tuberculosis (TB).
