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The death of the patient can be attributed to failure of the hospital staff and the medical team to properly assess why and for what reason he was hospitalized. If he had a psychiatric problem, then it would have been safer for the hospitals psych unit or department to follow a strict rule or intervention in ensuring patient safety first. Was he suicidal? Did anyone try to find out what his psychosocial problem was other than rushing into finding what the physical problem is.
A complete assessment entails knowing the psychosocial well being of the patient. Again where was the hospitals security? Are the windows large enough that somebody can use them to escape? How high was the first floor and how did the patient fall? were there witnesses? To some extent this should be a lesson to the hospital to increase or intervene in ensuring patient safety, otherwise many more patients will be jumping in the hope that they can die on realizing that their situation is not improving. Its time to act and put measures in place to avoid these unnecessary loss of life.
This is strange death for such a man.First floor for a Hospital can only be 3m - 3.8m in height. Jumping from such a height can not cause death easily,wether you fall on cement pavements etc, I have seen people falling off Guava tree more than 5 meters still have broken limbs or hands. Hope the Kenya police will do a good work to investigate.