KOLKATA: A male patient, who had escaped from his bed at a private hospital at Mullickbazar in central part of the city and sat on the edge of a cornice on the seventh floor for over two hours, fell off and critically injured himself on Saturday, a police official said.
Sujit Adhikary had sneaked to the cornice through a gap in the glass window in the ward where he was under treatment at the Institute of Neuroscience. He then sat on the edge precariously as anxious bystanders looked on and the fire brigade, police and hospital authorities frantically tried to bring him down.
