Probe ongoing into death of female physician at Jordan University Hospital

AMMAN — Police on Thursday said they were in the process of investigating the death of a female physician who allegedly fell to her death at the Jordan University Hospital earlier in the day, official sources said.

The 25-year-old victim was found dead on hospital premises, Police Spokesperson Lt. Col. Amer Sartawi told The Jordan Times.

Sartawi said investigations are ongoing.

A second official source told The Jordan Times that the victim, Mirona Asfour, was a first-year resident physician in anaesthesia.

“The victim worked at the Jordan University Hospital  and was missing for a short period,” the official source said.

Hospital employees reviewed the cameras and found the victim dead on the floor next to her hospital dorm room, according to the official source.

The woman lived on the ninth floor of the hospital dorm, and investigators found a table next to the window where she was found dead, the official source maintained.

A team of government forensic pathologists headed by Imad Abdullat conducted an autopsy at the Jordan University Hospital  and concluded that she died from fractures to different parts of her body, a senior medical source said.

“Foul play is ruled out since the fractures and bruises on her body are consistent with falling from a high place,” the senior medical source told The Jordan Times.

The government physicians estimated that the woman has been dead since “3:30am on Thursday morning”, according to the senior medical source.

The senior medical source added that the victim has been “employed at the Jordan University Hospital  for one-and-a-half-months, and lost her mother in 2020”.

Meanwhile, the victim’s family issued a statement urging the public to “stop spreading rumours about the reasons behind their daughter’s death”.

“Our daughter had severe depression and sadness because of her mother’s death at the end of 2020,” the family said in the statement.

The family pointed out that despite trying to help their daughter to overcome the depression, the disease managed to overcome her.

The family called on the public to take into consideration the difficult circumstances that they are going through and “to be granted the necessary space to grieve their dear daughter, away from rumours, gossip and press interviews”.