Varanasi: Distressed over the critical condition of her newborn son, a 27-year-old woman allegedly died by suicide by hanging herself near the oxygen plant building on the campus of Sir Sunderlal Hospital (SSL), BHU, under the Lanka police station area on Thursday morning.Lanka police station in charge Rajkumar Sharma said the deceased was a resident of the Anpara area of Sonbhadra district. Police completed preliminary legal formalities, sent the body for postmortem examination, examined CCTV footage and questioned her family members.According to reports, the woman was referred to BHU Hospital from another hospital after her condition deteriorated. She was admitted on Oct 28 and gave birth to a baby boy. The newborn’s condition remained critical, following which doctors admitted him to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of the paediatrics department.According to her mother-in-law, the woman was insisting on taking the newborn home on the night of Nov 4. However, doctors refused to discharge the infant in view of his critical condition. Her mother-in-law told police that she was deeply distressed over the situation.Police said while her family members were asleep late Wednesday, she went to the area near the oxygen plant, close to the paediatrics department, and hanged herself. A security guard spotted her body on Thursday morning and alerted the police.
