Patients pass out before voting

BANDUNG: Three patients at Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung were unable to join the voting in the April 5 election as they fell unconscious shortly before the election on Monday.

The patients were reported as Titi, Uting and Ojoh.

Sulaeman, a poll committee member, said that the story began when he and his colleagues visited the hospital and brought the ballot papers from one hospital room to another for eligible patients to vote.

But, the committee members skipped the three patients after they discovered that the three were unconscious when they entered their rooms.

A nurse at the hospital said that the loss of consciousness was due to their condition. -- Antara