Patient missing from GBP hospital, security staff wash hands off

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, July 16, 2026

Even though the specialist doctors and faculties of GBP hospital and AGMC were up in arms over a speculated ban on private practice in the absence of a formal notification, the services in the GBP hospital , main referral hospital in the state, seem to be faltering gradually. In a strange incident a senior patient went missing from his hospital bed yesterday and he is yet to be traced out . The private security staff on duty in the hospital have shaken their hands off the incident and are reported to have asked the relatives of the patient to look for and find him. This is the second such case to have happened in the hospital over the past six months.

According to details of the case available from hospital sources, Arjun Jharar (60), a resident of Lankapura area of Khowai subdivision , had been admitted to GBP hospital upon referral from Khowai hospital and was gradually recovering from his ailments. But yesterday in the morning the man’s son and daughter-in-law who had gone to GBP market to purchase medicine returned to the hospital and found Arjun Jharar missing from his bed . They looked for the old man all over the hospital but could not trace him but the security staff on duty there refused to take any responsibility and , in stead, asked the husband and wife to look for the patient and trace him. The man is yet to be traced .

In a similar incident a few months ago an woman had gone missing and the private security staff as well as police had refused to accept any responsibility . They had asked the relatives of that patient also to find him out. After two days the missing woman had been found by her son two kms away from the hospital but that did not stir the administrative staff of the hospital. Yesterday’s incident has not had any effect on the hospital authority even as missing Arjun Jharar’s relatives are frantically moving here and there to trace him out.

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