A Jordanian doctor ended her life, following throwing herself from the ninth floor of the University of Jordan Hospital in the capital, Amman, at dawn on Thursday.
Security sources reported that the doctor, who is a resident of the hospital (first year), stood at a table in the residence designated for doctors on duty, jumped from the window of the ninth floor and fell to the ground; What led to her exposure to multiple fractures and severe bleeding caused death.
The body of Doctor Mirona Muhammad Asfour was transferred to the forensic medicine hospital by order of the Public Prosecutor, where an autopsy was performed in the presence of her father.
For her part, Dr. Farah Shawwara, a family medicine specialist and a member of the “resigned” Medical Syndicate, said, “Our colleague threw herself from the roof of a hospital in which she worked thousands of hours, leaving behind hundreds of colleagues suffering from pressure and lacking rights. Hundreds work twice the required hours and for a wage. Little or no pay.
She added, “If the file of resident doctors, their wages, working hours and rights are not opened wide today.. when will it open?!..may God have mercy on our colleague and have mercy on our colleagues who died on the roads following strenuous 36-hour shifts.”
In turn, the President of the University of Jordan Hospital, Dr. Jamal Massad, revealed the details of finding the body of the deceased doctor, denying that the accident was related to the working conditions.
Massad added that the deceased doctor showed her love for her work, and her satisfaction to start her working life following graduating from university, explaining that he had no information regarding other circumstances.
He explained in statements to local media that at approximately eight thirty in the evening on Wednesday, he lost contact with the deceased doctor, as she was summoned to the operating room to do her work, but no one was able to contact her.
And he indicated that within half an hour of losing contact with the doctor, who works as an anesthesia resident in the hospital regarding a month and a half ago, everyone started searching for her, and the hospital security and security services were informed of her loss.
He pointed out that an attempt was made to track it through the hospital’s surveillance cameras, and a personal search for it began by the cadres and co-workers, and the places where it was expected to be examined, until someone noticed an object lying on the roof of the radiology building on the ground floor, and it turned out. It’s the doctor’s corpse.
And the director of the hospital continued: “The search continued on the floors, and a table was found on the ninth floor without its location, and on the surface of the table there were traces of shoes,” explaining that this was at two o’clock in the morning on Thursday.
Massad confirmed that the surveillance cameras do not monitor the location of the table, and therefore the details of what happened did not appear.
The news of the doctor’s suicide received a great response from Jordanians on social media; It is the third death in Jordan in less than 24 hours.
Doctor Mirona mourned a number of her friends and lovers, as one of her friends tweeted: “May God have mercy on you, Mirona, and make your abode heaven, and give patience to your father and your loved ones.” in it”.
And in other comments: “God have mercy on her like an angel,” “God give patience to her family, a real tragedy,” and “God have mercy on her, and Lord, it is not suicide.”
