Workplace accidents, illnesses take their toll
By Titus Filio
Contributor
A 31-year old Indian suspected to be positive with HIV died at the Salmaniya Medical Centre on Monday.
Hospital staff would neither confirm nor deny if the man had HIV but they said the patient had been put under isolation since he was admitted for some illness at the hospital last week.
The head of the committee on HIV-AIDS monitoring, Dr Somaya Al Jowder, said they had not received the complete records of the Indian and they could not confirm whether he indeed had the virus.
The Indian national was one of three expatriate workers who died within a space of one week at the Salmaniya Medical Complex last week.
Workplace accidents, illnesses take their toll
By Titus Filio
Contributor
A 31-year old Indian suspected to be positive with HIV died at the Salmaniya Medical Centre on Monday.
Hospital staff would neither confirm nor deny if the man had HIV but they said the patient had been put under isolation since he was admitted for some illness at the hospital last week.
The head of the committee on HIV-AIDS monitoring, Dr Somaya Al Jowder, said they had not received the complete records of the Indian and they could not confirm whether he indeed had the virus.
The Indian national was one of three expatriate workers who died within a space of one week at the Salmaniya Medical Complex last week.
Police are investigating the death of a Bangladeshi worker who died on Tuesday due to serious head injuries he sustained from a fall.
The Bangladeshi, 31-year old Kamal Miah, was admitted to the hospital earlier this week but he was hardly able to relate clearly the circumstances behind his fall.
He was dazed when he was admitted to the hospital and on occasions slipped into coma.
Kamal was confined to bed 16 of Ward 66. Just next to the bed beside him, at bed 15, a fellow Bangladeshi, Suhadeb Suresh died on Monday. He succumbed to head and chest wounds he sustained after falling from a three-storey height at a construction worksite.
“We have been making hospital visitations over the past 10 years and this is the first time that we have encountered three patients dying within a space of one week,” said a church volunteer who conducts visitation to the sick at the hospital’s charity ward.
An Indian who was isolated after being found to be infected with HIV also died during the past week.
The 31-year old is from Rajashtan. He had been confined to the hospital for more than a week before he died.
NGOs and human rights organisations had in the past called on authorities to check especially the companies who virtually abandon poor expatriate Asian workers at the hospital. In some cases, employers of the workers could not even be traced.
The Ministry of Labour had also earlier this year called on companies and employers to report to them any work-related accident.
Article from: Bahrain Tribune Newspaper
