A doctor, a ward boy and a cleaning woman arrested on the charge of culpable homicide
A patient's relative who stepped into Nair Hospital's MRI room with an oxygen cylinder was killed after the machine's astounding magnetic field swallowed him up along with the metal cylinder, which spewed high-pressure liquid oxygen into his lungs, taking his life.
Rajesh Maru, 32, was accompanying an ailing 65-year-old relative to the MRI machine around 7.30 pm on Saturday when the incident took place. His relatives claim he was asked to carry the cylinder by a ward boy, which is prohibited.
The freak mishap, which isn't the first that a civic-run hospital in the city has seen, has sparked outrage over the negligence on display by the facility's staff, three of whom were suspended on Sunday.
The trio, Dr Saurabh Langekar, who was on duty at the time, ward boy Vitthal Chavan, and cleaner Sunita Surve, were later arrested, as Maru's family had lodged a first information report under section 304 (culpable homicide) of the Indian Penal Code at Agripada police station. They are out on bail.
Two of Maru's relatives who witnessed the mishap, said nobody warned them against carrying the metal cylinder.
"We opened the door halfway and the high magnetic pressure reeled Rajesh in along with the cylinder. We pulled him out and he was taken to the casualty ward. It all happened in no more than 15 seconds. He was declared dead after about 10 minutes," said Priyanka Solanki, a relative.
The autopsy conducted at JJ Hospital stated the cause of death as high oxygen pressure in lungs and abdomen.
Maru, a Lalbaug resident who worked in an electric retail shop, was the only earner in his family. He was visiting his elder sister's mother-in-law, Laxmi Solanki, who was hospitalised for breathlessness on January 26. She, like scores of other patients at Nair, is yet to undergo an MRI scan, as the machine, the only one at the facility, is out of order for repairs.
Maru's relatives flooded hospital dean Ramesh Bharmal's office on Sunday to protest his staff's fatal carelessness. Local BJP MLA Mangal Prabhat Lodha said a compensation of Rs 5 lakh has been announced for Maru's family.
In November 2014, two employees of the Tata Memorial Hospital's treatment centre in Kharghar were gravely when one of them walked into the centre's MRI room holding an oxygen cylinder. The duo, a technician and a ward boy, were sucked in and remained stuck for nearly four hours before an engineer arrived and deactivated the machine.
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- A doctor, a ward boy and a cleaning woman arrested on the charge of culpable homicide
- Maru’s kin flooded dean Bharmal’s office to protest the staff’s fatal carelessness
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