2 days, and nobody knows this man in ICU

Amid the loud wails and quiet grief which fill the corridors of the Civil Hospital, there is an eerie silence around one man lying on a bed in the intensive care unit. Two days after the 21 blasts struck Ahmedabad, nobody knows who he is, and nobody has come to enquire. Doctors say that when they found him, he was lying unattended in Ward C-1, with no relative or friend around him. He has severe internal injuries, including swelling in the brain, and is now in the neurology ward. “He was just wearing worn-out pants, his pockets empty, with no papers found on his person. All he had was a janeyu (the holy string worn by Brahmins) around his waist,” says one of the doctors. He also had keys of some vehicle hanging from the janeyu but so far authorities haven’t been able to determine the kind of vehicle. The man was also wearing no clothes in the upper half, leaving lesser clues to go on.

Dr Deepak Malik, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the hospital, says there is another patient, in Ward B-4, also unidenfied. She is suffering from loss of memory since the blast.