Tinsukia Civil Hospital Imbroglio: Clear Case of Mistaken Identity

Our Correspondent

TINSUKIA: The Tinsukia Civil Hospital imbroglio involving a person regaining senses after being declared dead by the hospital authorities was a clear case of mistaken identity and some electronic news channels distorted the bizarre incident to blown up proportions without verifying the fact from the hospital authorities.

The news that created a sensation in the town revolved around two patients bearing almost similar names – Mohammad Bagina Hussain and Mohammad Hussain and both were critical at the time of admission and were kept in the same room adjacent to the Medicine ward.

According to hospital sources, after Mohammad Hussain fell several times from the bed, the nurses preferred to lay him on the floor and advised for CT scan while Mohammad Bagina Hussain died on Friday morning and his body was kept in the same room. The hospital authorities were waiting for GRPF to collect the body as he was brought to the hospital by GRPF.

As the news of Hussain’s death spread, some persons known to Mohammad Hussain informed the relatives of Hussain about his death without verifying which Hussain had actually died. The relatives of Mohammad Hussain, on reaching the hospital, to their astonishment found Hussain crawling on the floor.

The e-media persons, on being informed, termed the room as ‘morgue’ knowing well that the morgue lies a kilometre away from the Civil Hospital. Some Guwahati-based web portals too picked up the story from their local counterparts and joined the bandwagon.

Expressing strong displeasure over the false and contorted news, a senior doctor of the hospital said that as most of the government hospitals in Assam do not have rooms to keep dead patients for a short duration, they are kept in the same room till the bodies are collected by the relatives, while accidental death and unidentified cases are shifted to the morgue which is a kilometre away from the hospital.

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