PTI, MUMBAI: A man carrying a liquid oxygen cylinder was killed when he was yanked into the jaws of an MRI machine and inhaled the gas that leaked out of the container, his family said today.
The police, however, said that Rajesh Maru (32) was killed last evening when he inhaled excessive oxygen that oozed out of the cylinder when he had entered the MRI room with a relative, who was there to undergo the scan. Metallic objects are not allowed in MRI rooms and the patient’s family members said they were made to remove all such items, including mobile phone handsets, before entering inside. They claimed the ward boy said that the oxygen cylinder could be carried in the room as the machine was not switched on.
The police have booked three staffers of Nair Hospital in Central Mumbai for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and arrested a doctor and a wardboy today, a police official said, adding that the role of the third accused, an ayah (sweeper), is being examined. “The victim, as directed by the doctor, took the patient to the MRI room for the scan. There an oxygen cylinder leaked,” a police official said.
The official claimed that the oxygen was in liquid form which is poisonous and the victim inhaled it in an excessive amount and died on the spot. He said the patient was not affected in the incident.
