Gujarat: Allegedly harassed by seniors, civil hospital nurse commits suicide in Navsari

SURAT: A 28-year-old nurse committed suicide by hanging herself at her residence at Vijalpore town in Navsari district in the early morning hours of Thursday.

Megha Acharya

, 28, a resident of

Jalaram society

in

Vejalpore town

in Navsari district, was working as a staff nurse with the Civil Hospital in Navsari. The deceased has left behind four-and-a-half-page suicide note levelling serious charges of harassment against her seniors at the workplace.

Sources said that the deceased had rendered exemplary service as a corona warrior during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic at the Civil Hospital. Her family members refused to accept the dead body demanding justice and action against those responsible for forcing their daughter to take such an extreme step.

Senior police officers from Navsari rushed to the spot and carried out investigation. The police recovered four-and-a-half-page suicide note where the deceased has mentioned certain names of her seniors for meting out mental harassment at the workplace.

Talking with media persons, mother of the deceased, Minaxi Acharya said, “For a long time now, my daughter would come home and cry a lot. She would complain about her seniors who were meting out harassment in the name of work at the hospital. She was getting calls and messages from her senior at night. She was posted at the Covid ward for few months and then shifted to the general ward”

A police officer said, “We have recovered a suicide note from the room where the girl committed suicide. Prima facie it seems that the deceased was harassed at the workplace by her seniors. There are few names mentioned in the suicide note. WE have started the investigation and the guilty will be booked”