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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Authorities at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital and detectives from Jinja Police Station have launched a joint inquest into the suspected death by suicide of a 50-year-old man at the health facility.<\/p>\n

Micheal Mukulu, a resident of Rubaga-Mpumudde in Jinja North City Division, was last Friday found hanging in one of the sanitary facilities, the hospital administrator, David Ssemakula, who identified the deceased, said.<\/p>\n

Ssemakula described the incident as \u201cvery sad\u201d, saying the deceased had \u201ca chronic condition\u201d and was being managed in Ward Four of the hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe died by suicide by hanging due to reasons unknown to all of us. However, we notified police which came and took the body to the mortuary awaiting an autopsy,\u201d Ssemakula told this reporter at the weekend.<\/p>\n

He added that \u201cthe hospital has contacted the deceased\u2019s relatives to corroborate reports that he had some mental health-related issues that may have prompted him into the act.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sources also told Monitor<\/b> that the deceased has been seen staying in the hospital with a relative, who is a retired (hospital) employee.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has been coming here as a relative to that retired staff,\u201d the source who preferred anonymity said.<\/p>\n

But on Sunday, Ssemakula wondered how the deceased beat the hospital\u2019s all \u201cround vigilance\u201d, including that of security guards.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have full security in place which patrols the facility all day and night with help of police, but we realised that we have porous outlets into the hospital through which he might have sneaked,\u201d noted Ssemakula.<\/p>\n

The entire Jinja Regional Referral Hospital lacks a fence despite being one of the oldest in the country, having been constructed in the 1930s.<\/p>\n

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