Woman alive but declared dead in West Bengal hospital
By IANSTuesday, January 26, 2010
KOLKATA - Furious relatives of a patient admitted in a state-run hospital held an impromptu agitation after it wrote out a wrong death certificate when she was actually battling for her life.
Mariam Bibi was admitted to SSKM hospital with ulcer Monday. “At around 7.30 p.m. we received a call from hospital officials informing us that Mariam’s condition was serious. When we reached the hospital we saw a death certificate has already been issued although Mariam was alive and doing fine,” said a relative of Mariam Bibi.
The furious relatives agitated in front of the ward master who was forced to apologise and accept it as a mistake.
“I have just informed and written on the daily report card of the patient that Mariam is serious but due to some mistake it was written that the patient had died,” said the ward master.
The SSKM is a tertiary referral government hospital for the state of West Bengal, and is a national research institute.
