According to eyewitnesses, Rajesh Maru, who worked as a salesman, walked into the MRI room at the BYL Nair Charitable Hospital carrying an oxygen cylinder which was helping his relative breathe. The metal in the cylinder activated the machine's monstrous magnetic field pulling both the man and the cylinder with great force. His hand got stuck in the machine along with the cylinder triggering a massive oxygen leak.
Mr Maru's relative and the ward boys managed to pull him out of the machine but his body was swollen and he was heavily bleeding. He was rushed to the emergency ward where he died within 10 minutes, Harish Solanki, his brother-in-law told news agency ANI.
An FIR has been registered against the hospital management and investigations are on, a senior police officer said.
Mr Solanki said that his mother was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Mr Maru was with him at the hospital. They were waiting for the doctor outside the MRI room, when a ward boy attached to the ICU told them to take the oxygen cylinder inside.
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"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. So we thought let's just go in. But as soon as Rajesh entered with the cylinder, it turned out that the machine was on. He was sucked in and his hand got stuck there. His body swelled up and he couldn't speak. It's because of their careless that Rajesh died," Mr Solanki said.He blames the staff for negligence and demands strict action the erring doctor and wardboy. But the hospital has denied the allegation and said Mr Maru went inside without their permission.
