LENNOX NICHOLLS, the man who attempted suicide three times last week, is still alive.

But the 45-year-old, of Lammings, St Joseph, remains in critical condition in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH).

The man tried hanging himself from a tree last Tuesday, then drank a poisonous substance when that failed to take his life. While hospitalised, he reportedly jumped through a window on Ward C10 around 2:30 a.m. the next day.

His sister Sandra Nicholls told the DAILY NATION yesterday she was still looking for answers about how he fell from the window.

"I feel . . . he should have been handled differently. He should have been under guard from the evening when he went in," she said during a telephone interview.

She also said she had to "run around" to find out what happened when she went to the hospital to visit him.

"No one called me to say anything. There was no proper satisfaction," she said, adding that she had made a complaint about the incident at the QEH.

Nicholls said doctors gave him a 50/50 chance at survival. She added he had an operation on his heel and a tube inserted into his chest to compensate for a collapsed lung.

The public relations firm attached to the hospital said a report on the incident would not be ready until tomorrow. (JR-B)