Man Dies After Getting Sucked Into An MRI Machine

By Samantha in Heartbreaking On 23rd September 2022
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A heartbreaking incident happened that involved a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine which led to the death of a man at a hospital in India.

Rajesh Maruti Maru, a 32-year-old, was thrust into the MRI machine on Saturday while he was visiting an elderly relative at the BYL Nair Charitable Hospital in Mumbai, India

According to Hindustan Times, Maru was told by one of the junior staff members to carry a metal man a metal cylinder of liquid oxygen into a room containing an MRI machine.

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However, no one was aware at the time that the MRI machine was turned on. Ad Maru entered the room, he was pushed towards the machine and this caused the oxygen tank to burst and leak. The poor man died inhaling large amounts of oxygen and he bled heavily as a result of the accident.

"When we [the hospital staff] 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,” Harish Solanki, Maru's relative, told NDTV.

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"It's because of their carelessness that Rajesh died," Solanki added.

Following the case investigation, police arrested at least two members of hospital staff for negligence. The local government also awarded the man's family 500,000 rupees ($7,855) in compensation.

"We have arrested a doctor and another junior staff member under section 304 of the Indian penal code for causing death due to negligence," Mumbai police spokesman, Deepak Deoraj, told AFP.

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MRI scanners use incredibly strong magnetic fields, along with electric field gradients and radio waves, to generate highly detailed 3-dimensional images of the body. This is why it is important that all metal objects should be removed before going near to one of these machines.

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Though this sounds like a freak accident, another one of this kind happened when a 6-year-old boy was killed in 2001 by an MRI machine in New York after its magnetism caused an oxygen tank to fly towards him, crushing his skull.