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MRI death: Nair hospital denies RTI activist access to probe report

While Nair hospital says the report has confidential information which can't be revealed, dean admits hospital doesn't have it

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Rajesh Maru's family during his final rites. File pic

Rajesh Maru's family during his final rites. File pic

It has been almost one-and-half-years 32-year-old Rajesh Maru died after being sucked into an MRI machine at Nair Hospital, but it seems the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is still reluctant to make the incident's inquiry report public. Even after an order from the chief information officer (CIO), Nair Hospital refuses to provide the report to an activist in clear violation of the Right to Information Act, 2005. While in a response to the RTI request the hospital said that the report had confidential details, which if made public would affect the outcome of the probe, the dean says the hospital doesn't even possess the report.

Last year in January Maru died when he went to the hospital to visit a relative who was admitted there. The moment he entered the MRI test room with an oxygen cylinder, he got sucked into the machine.

Following this, an inquiry committee was formed which conducted an investigation and submitted the final report to former Municipal Commissioner Ajoy Mehta.
The probe revealed that a ward boy and a female attendant were responsible for the incident, as they did not follow proper safety rules. They should have stopped Maru from going inside the room.

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