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Medical Negligence: Man Dies After Being Sucked Into MRI Machine at Mumbai Hospital

We often hear cases of medical negligence and many people died because of carelessness by the staff or the respective employees. Recently, in a freak accident, a 32-year-old man resident of Lalbaug was killed after being pulled into an MRI machine at a Mumbai hospital.

Here the medical negligence occurs when the ward boy allegedly permitted the man to enter the room along with a metallic oxygen cylinder. Little did he know that he will be pulled in and die in next 2 minutes.

For the kind information, any article with a metal comprising jewelry, clothing with metallic threads, zip fasteners, metallic buttons, underwire and even medicinal implants are not permitted within the MRI room.

The incident took place when Rajesh Maru had come to visit an ailing patient in BYL Nair Hospital. He carried the oxygen cylinder for the patient in the MRI room so that she can get the scan done easily. Rajesh already had his doubts that metal objects are not allowed inside the MRI room but when he asked about it, the ward boy just said casually, ‘Sab Chalta Hai’.

As soon as he entered the room, the MRI machine’s powerful magnetic pull sucked in Maru, who was still holding the cylinder. Rajesh’s hand was wedged between the MRI machine and the cylinder, with the magnetic field making it impossible to pull away. The family members stated that the hospital ward boy had asked Mr. Rajesh to take the cylinder in the room.

The family of Rajesh also said that it was the ward boy’s fault that he give him false assurance of safety. Usually, metal stuff is not allowed inside; so, how come this medical ward boy allowed him to carry an oxygen cylinder?

Rajesh Maru’s relative Harish Solanki, whose mom was the patient said, “When we told him that metallic things aren’t allowed inside an MRI room, he said ‘sab chalta hai, Hamara Roz ka kaam hai’ (it’s fine, we do it every day). He also said that the machine was switched off. The doctor, as well as the technician, didn’t say anything.”

Solanki further said that when Rajesh entered the room with the oxygen cylinder, the machine was on and the metal-activated the magnetic field of the machine; in no time, the man, as well as the cylinder, was pulled in with force.

When Maru and the patient accompanying him cried for help, few ward boys rushed in and managed to pull him out. A bleeding Maru was rushed to the emergency ward but succumbed to his injuries within minutes. An FIR has been filed; Ward boy Vitthal Chavan, Dr. Siddhant Shah and attendant Sunita Surve have been arrested for causing death due to negligence.

The hospital has denied wrongdoing and claimed that Maru was instructed against carrying the cylinder inside. It, however, suspended the concerned doctor, a ward boy, and a sweeper.