Nurse Jacintha Saldanha 'had attempted suicide before'
THE Bristol nurse who committed suicide after answering a hoax phone call about the Duchess of Cambridge made two attempts to kill herself last winter and had been prescribed anti- depressants, it has been reported.
Jacintha Saldanha, from Southmead, who took her own life days after the call from Australian DJs pretending to be the Queen and Prince Charles, attempted to commit suicide last December with an overdose of pills during a family visit to India, according to Indian newspaper reports.
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Jacintha Saldanha
She survived after being rushed to hospital but tried to commit suicide again just nine days later by apparently jumping from a building.
Ms Saldanha, 46, spent several days in intensive care before receiving psychiatric treatment and being prescribed a course of powerful antidepressants for nine months.
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Along with the previous suicide attempts, members of Ms Saldanha's family have revealed that the nurse was so ashamed after taking the hoax call earlier this month that she did not tell her husband or two teenage children about it before her death, despite speaking to them by phone several times.
Ms Saldanha was found hanged at her living quarters at the King Edward VII's Hospital in Central London on December 7.
Last week, hundreds of mourners gathered in a small town in India for her funeral. Friends and family paid their respects to the nurse during a simple ceremony in Shirva, 30 miles north of Mangalore.
She took her life three days after transferring a call from two Australian DJs, believing they were the Queen and Prince of Wales, to a colleague who described in detail the Duchess's condition during her hospital stay for morning sickness.
Comments
by Gazzabristol
Wednesday, December 26 2012, 1:46AM
“The British love a good scapegoat especially when it provides a quick and simple solution as opposed to delving into the more complex and murky world of long term psychiatric care. The British have an aversion to discussing mental health issues as it is.
I suppose it is also like the care home abuse scandal where it is easy to round up a few bad guys than ask uncomfortable questions about why we spend so much on satellite TV, foreign holidays, ipads and beer whilst at the same time spending an absolute pittance on lowest common denominator bargain basement care for the most vulnerable in society.
I wonder if Ms Saldanha was treated for depression at her place of work or whether she got the usual garbage NHS treatment where you are treated like a waste of space on a conveyor belt, get a rushed appointment with a consultant that doesn't have time for you, handed a bunch of pills, kicked out the door and never followed up.
I wonder.”
by dallyman
Tuesday, December 25 2012, 10:47AM
“Perhaps the true facts will be revealed in due course”
by bokbok
Monday, December 24 2012, 7:21PM
“Still the DJ's fault? Those poor DJ's have been hounded and made to feel guilty for nothing. I just hope the Radio station haven't handed over that cheque yet.”