Manoranjan Biswas, a resident of Uttarpara in Hooghly, committed suicide by hanging from the fire extinguishing pipe fixed on a wall of the bathroom housed in the fourth floor of Green Building at Medical College Hospital (MCH) on Friday night.
MCH authorities have formed an inquiry committee to probe the death.
Dr Anjan Adhikari, medical super-cum-vice-principal (MSVP) of the hospital, said that a nurse found the patient lying on his bed in the fourth floor on Friday when she was making rounds in the ward.
He might have committed suicide between 5 to 6 am.
MCH sources said that the patient was scheduled to undergo an orthopaedic surgery soon.
Relatives of patients, undergoing treatment in the building, raised questions on security and safety arrangements.