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According to hospital sources, Sandeep Sonar, a farm labourer by profession and a resident of Nandurbar district in Maharashtra came to Surat with his younger brother Vilash for treatment, on Wednesday afternoon.
Sandeep got admitted in the E-0 ward. On Friday morning, the doctors summoned his brother Vilash and told him that Sandeep has been diagnosed as HIV +ve.
According to the police, Sandeep went into depression after learning of his HIV status. In the afternoon, when Vilash went outside the hospital for some work, Sandeep went inside the bathroom of the ward and with the help of a rope, hanged himself from the ventilator.
The incident came to light when another patient went inside the bathroom and was shocked to see Sandeep hanging.
Vilash came to know of his brother's suicide when he returned half an hour later. The Umra police rushed to the spot after learning about the incident and sent the body for post mortem in the same hospital. Hospital authorities have, however, not given any statement regarding the suicide till now.
Vilash Sonar said, "My brother was working in the fields and since a couple of days he was complaining pain in the buttocks. He was also complaining about some white fluid oozing out from the area. We came to Surat, and with the help of some relatives here got him admitted in NCH. The doctors here told us that he would undergo a minor surgery. They took his blood and urine for tests on Wednesday, before getting him operated and was waiting for the reports. On Friday, the report came and the doctors told me that Sandeep was HIV positive. When I told him about the report he was heart broken and was tense."
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