GMC Bhopal former MBBS student allegedly attempts suicide by taking drug overdose
Bhopal: Days after a pregnant postgraduate medico died by suicide at Madhya Pradesh’s Gandhi Medical College (GMC), a former MBBS student allegedly attempted suicide on Thursday even as junior doctors and teachers of the institution were on strike.
The deceased, a resident of Gwalior, who completed his MBBS course this year and was a trainee at the GMC, was under psychiatric treatment due to depression for the last few months.
He consumed an overdose of medicines and got unconscious following which he was admitted to the Hamidia Hospital, the largest government-run hospital in the state.
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His condition was out of danger but he has been kept on regular monitoring by the doctors, a doctor informed IANS.
For the past three days, OPD and emergency medical services were suspended at Hamidia Hospital as all junior doctors and medical teachers have gone on protest after the death of Dr Saraswati Bala.
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