Kolkata: Two elderly persons went missing mysteriously from two hospitals in Howrah.
Police said a 67-year-old man Nitai Karmakar is a resident of Natabar Pal Road at Bantra in Howrah.
On Wednesday he went to Howrah Hospital along with his wife.
His wife took him to the CT Scan centre in the hospital. She left him alone at the CT Scan centre and went to get photocopies of prescriptions and some other documents. She returned and couldn't find her husband in the CT Scan centre. She searched in the entire hospital, but couldn't find him.
His family members lodged a complaint with the police on Thursday morning. Police initiated a probe and initiated a search
for the man. In another incident, a 65-year-old man Venkat Rao went missing from another hospital in the district. He was admitted to the hospital with certain illness and on Thursday morning the hospital authorities and his family members didn't find him in the hospital.