HAM operators, hosp official reunite woman with family
Times of India | 21 August 2024
Kolkata: She could have got lost had the assistant superintendent of the Diamond Harbour Medical College and amateur radio operators not intervened. It was beyond her call of duty but assistant super Mahasweta Dey decided to look for the kin of a patient who lost her memory after an accident.
It was almost a month back that Rituparna Sardar was brought to Diamond Harbour Government Medical College and Hospital in an unconscious state.She had met with an accident and was found unconscious near Diamond Harbour station.
Doctors started treating the woman and gradually she started getting back to her senses. “She was a psychiatric patient and it was difficult for her to remember her address. But a few days ago, she started saying a few things about her home. We then decided to look for her residence,” said Utpal Dan, principal of the medical college.
Dey eventually contacted members of the amateur radio operators who had helped the hospital earlier in such cases. “She took the call beyond her duty,” Dan said.
Amateur radio operators shared her photograph in their members’ network and one of them traced her brother at Swetpur, Deganga. “She was earlier admitted to Pavlov Institute at Kolkata. She would often leave the house,” said Ambarish Nag Biswas, founder of the West Bengal Radio Club.