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Accurate identification of patients remains not less than a headache in many countries in the sub-Asian region. Nonetheless, accurate patient identification is still essential to providing high-quality, safe healthcare. The following explanations help to explain why patient identification processes in Sub-Asian hospitals are flawed: Larger hospitals tend to have decentralized patient administration because the adoption of a degree of financial and managerial autonomy for clinical departments has encouraged the proliferation of redundant administrative patient management systems (every department wanting to handle its own bookkeeping). Patients so obtain ID numbers and medical records that are department-specific. Furthermore, it should be noted that the lack of a master patient index (MPI) is a general rule, meaning that there are no central patient identification systems that make use of the department's current patient information.