Mumbai colour poisoning: Sion hosp to study cases for better treatment

Three days after the Dharavi Holi crisis, the medicine department of LTMG Sion hospital has decided to study the cases and colour used in playing Holi for future reference.

According to the department head, this is the first time that a Holi mishap led to the hospitalisation of 250 people and a death.

Dr ND Moulick, the head of the medicine department, LTMG Sion hospital, said that the department is trying to get hold of the substance used in playing Holi by the Dharavi holi revellers. "We will have the line of treatment that can help doctors in future," she added.

On Saturday, all the patients were discharged from Sion hospital except 17-year-old Vinod Ganesh who had very low oxygen level and meth-haemoglobin refused to come down .

According to Tripti Trivedi, associate professor MICU, Sion hospital, it is the decolouration of the skin that determines whether the patient has high level of meth — haemoglobin in the body. However the patients in Rajawadi hospital didn't show any decolouration which is also called cyanosis. Dr Sanjay Oak, dean of KEM hospital said, "It means that the cases Rajawadi hospital got was different from the ones we saw in Sion hospital."