Mumbai: Man gets sucked into MRI machine, relatives blame doctors of negligence
After 32 year old, Rajesh Maru died in an accident at the MRI centre of Nari Hospital, the relatives of the deceased blame the hospital staff of being negligent.
A staff member instructed them to remove all metal objects before entering the MRI scan room, Harish Solanki, Maru’s brother-in-law said.
“The ward boy asked us to get an oxygen cylinder into the MRI room, insisting that the patient will need it, one of the relatives pointed out that the cylinder was also made of metal, but the ward boy said that the machine was switched off,” Solanki added.
Solanki said that a doctor and a technician were present when the ward boy asked them to get the cylinder in the room.
As soon as he entered the MRI room, Solanki said that Maru’s left hand, which was holding the oxygen cylinder, got pulled into the machine and his finger got stuck between the machine and the cylinder.
“The ward boy and I managed to pull him out, during which his finger was severed. When we pulled him out, he was unconscious, so we rushed him to the trauma centre where they gave him electric shocks, but he could not be revived,” Solanki said.
Maru’s post-mortem was conducted at Sir JJ Hospital, Byculla, where doctors found the cause of death to be because of chest trauma, which led to collection of air between his lungs and the chest wall.
-PTC News
