Haunted Lies part 1

INCIDENT 4

Postmortem

17march 2003

Daman city

Today it was a hectic schedule.  Havens, pujas everything had to be organized in a single day.  Needless to say you might be wondering why suddenly havens in the hospitals?  The answer lies in pages of my attendance diary under the date 1 march 2000.  On this day a bloody body as a case of accident had come to the hospital.  Dr. Amitabh were to attend it, he did and then sent the body for postmortem.  Unluck starts when the body comes for postmortem.  Postmortem is such an awful job.  Initially the head is cut and brain is checked, then the digestive system and terminating with heart and lungs.  While examining the heart for a moment I felt that it was beating but the body`s temperature proved about his death.. Finally sealing everything, it was concluded to be a natural death.  After sunset, postmortem is not done. Therefore the room was closed and re examination was to be done, the next morning.  That night something happened, security guard and the doom boy were very badly beaten up.  The next morning they were found wounded and lying in blood pool. The doctor on duty said he did not hear anything.  The doom boy on gaining consciousness uttered-“aatma” got a very bad scolding from me.  Police came, enquired and left.  Now since then in every two day the hospital working staff started facing problems.  The ward boys were unusually beaten, the scissors and forceps disappeared, and the receptionist got blank calls and sometimes fake calls of      

Accident cases, the ambulances were unimportantly disturbed.  After 15 days, on a serious note Dr. Amitabh was attacked, he suffered head injuries went into a state unconsciousness.  When he regained consciousness, he started bluffing and muttering nonsense, started speaking about some man named Dinesh.  On examining his words it was understood that he is confessing on killing a patient as neglection.  Our head doctor said that he has lost his brain and cannot be cured.  I immediately came towards the morgue. I asked the watchman, “Who was it?”  He silently said-“sir, the accident patient of March 1…you remember, he is taking revenge….”  I immediately went into record room, took out the file on morgue history and opened March 1.  There was no entry of the person. Photographs, report everything gone.  I checked morgue room the body was unclaimed but it wasn’t there either. All of us were in a fix.  Then I remembered it was the same person whom I had postmortem in 1992.  I checked 1992 record, he was there. The report read

“DATE: MARCH 4 1992

PATIENT NAME: Dinesh Kumar

CAUSUALTY: accident and loss of blood

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POSTMORTEM TIME: 2:00 pm

POSTMORTEM AREA: Daman City Hospital

POSTMORTEM DONE BY:  Dr. Debashish Ganguly

SIGNATURE:  Debashish       “

   The report itself said everything and I informed this matter to our head doctor and then today the haven was done.  Now I realize sometimes being a doctor may land you in serious trouble.

Debashish Ganguly