Rajesh Maru walked into an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) room holding a metal oxygen cylinder for his relative, the patient.
According to eye witnesses, when he entered the room the metal in the cylinder activated the machine's attraction force in the magnetic field, pulling in both the man and the cylinder with great force. His hand got allegedly stuck in the machine along with the cylinder, triggering a massive oxygen leak.
One of his relatives and the male nurses managed to pull Maru out of the machine but his body was swollen and he was bleeding heavily. He was rushed to the emergency ward, but died within 10 minutes.
Any metallic objects, including jewelry, clothing with metallic fibers, zippers, buttons, underwire and even medical implants aren't allowed inside the MRI room.
The family says the male nurse who was responsible for the MRI room on that day had told Maru to take the cylinder inside.
"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," Maru's relative Harish Solanki told NDTV.
A police case has been registered against the doctors and the nurse for causing death by negligence.
