# Mumbai : Family alleges that their 32-year-old relative died at Nair Hospital due to negligence by hospital staff last night after he was admitted inside MRI room with an oxygen tank; FIR registered against unknown persons under section 304, investigation on. pic.twitter.com/sxAUbsD7ft
Man Killed After Being Sucked Into MRI Machine
An Indian man was killed Saturday after being sucked into an MRI machine at a Mumbai Hospital, according to Indian news broadcaster NDTV.
The man, Rajesh Maru, 32, was helping an elderly relative at BYL Nair Charitable Hospital when he entered the MRI room with a metal oxygen tank. An MRI machine is a powerful tool used to create medical imaging of human anatomies using strong magnetic fields and radio waves. Metal objects are supposed to be removed when an MRI is in use.
A hospital employee described as a “ward boy” told Maru that it was fine to bring the tank inside and that the MRI machine was off. When Maru and his brother-in-law Harish Solanki resisted, citing the danger, the employee, Vitthal Chavan, said: “It's fine, we do it every day.”
When Maru entered the room, the MRI machine was still on and the man was pulled toward it with “great force.”
“He went there to visit my ailing mother. A ward boy told him to carry an oxygen cylinder with him to MRI room which is prohibited. It all happened because of the carelessness of hospital's doctors and administration. No security guard was either present to tell him that he should not carry oxygen cylinder with him to MRI room,” Solanki told Asia News International.
After hitting the machine Maru’s body entire body was swollen and he began bleeding profusely, according to NDTV. Maru was taken to the emergency room where he died shortly after.
Police on Sunday arrested Chavan, the attending doctor Siddhant Shah and ward attendant Sunita Surve in connection with the death, according to the New Indian Express.
The hospital is also investigating the incident.
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Not to be too grotesque, but this has to have been an astonishing sight.
I know that this happened here in the US with a can of coke. It killed a kid.
It's surprising how often dumb things happen in hospitals.
What an awful thing to happen to that poor young man.
I'm claustrophobic to start with, and when it comes to things like the enclosed MRI machines I am even worse. Luckily now they have open MRI machines in many places and all I need is a bit of anxiety medication to help me relax.
who doesn't these daze
Isn't the machine pictured an Open MRI one ?
Yes, very similar to the one where I had my last MRI done last July. It was not at a hospital though, but, and Imaging establishment. It was open but very close. I had to keep my eyes closed the entire time so that I would not see how close it was to my face. But, I kept remembering that I was not enclosed in a tube like the closed type. (shivers)
thank you for clarification
and Raven
it looks like they've made much progress
So, he was holding a metal cannister and the magnet from the MRI lifted him off the ground and slammed him into the machine, breaking every bone in his body and causing massive bleeding. Did this like happen , instantaneously?
Pretty much like that.
This reminds me of the Breaking Bad episode where they used a scrapyard electro magnet to erase a hard drive in a Police Station evidence room and everything in that room made of steel flew across the room.
Nobody has asked this yet, but why the hell didn't he just let go of the metal cannister?
There are things that happen so fast that your body can't react fast enough. We have a farmer in the area that had to have an arm amputated because he reached into a machine to clear a wad of weeds, but when he grabbed the weeds the machines high speed rolls fed the weeds in and he couldn't let go fast enough before his arm was fed in peeling the flesh off to the bone near his shoulder.
He was lucky he lived. It's dangerous to work on a small farm because they're always working on equipment that chops, cuts, and dices and has exposed belt, shaft and chain drives. They're almost always working alone and tend to be many miles from emergency services.
That was the case here, he was operating the harvester and stopped to clear the weeds, the others in the field were on the other end of the field and were wondering why the machine was stopped for so long (other than a nature call), they rushed across the field when the smoke started rolling from the front of the machine.