Port Elizabeth man dies in plunge from hospital window

28 December 2016 - 15:20 By Estelle Ellis
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Comparing the cancer risk of people who drink, to that of people who do not, researchers calculated that alcohol was responsible for an estimated five percent of all new cancer cases.
Comparing the cancer risk of people who drink, to that of people who do not, researchers calculated that alcohol was responsible for an estimated five percent of all new cancer cases.
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A young man died after jumping through a fifth-floor window at Port Elizabeth’s Livingstone Hospital at the weekend.

Provincial health spokesman Sizwe Kupelo said the man‚ 29‚ had been admitted to hospital for alcohol-related issues on Saturday before the incident the next morning‚ Christmas Day.

Initial reports were that he had jumped from a first-floor window onto the roof of the Accident and Emergency Unit‚ but it later emerged he had suffered a much worse fall from a higher floor. “The man did not respond to sedation [after he was admitted]‚” Kupelo said.

“He ran away from a doctor‚ broke the window and fell from the fifth floor to the ground.” Both his legs were fractured in the fall and he suffered a serious head injury.

This story appeared in The Herald.

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