In a freak accident in Mumbai, a man accompanying a sick relative to hospital died after he inhaled an excessive amount of liquid oxygen in the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) room, a senior police official said on Sunday.
Rajesh Maru (32) was killed in the incident on Saturday evening at the civic-run hospital in Central Mumbai, following which a case was registered against three people—a doctor, a ward boy and a woman cleaner, police said.
Maru had gone to the hospital as one of his relatives was undergoing an MRI scan, an official said.
The victim, as directed by the doctor, took the patient to the MRI ward for the scan. There, an oxygen cylinder leaked, he said.
The oxygen was in liquid form, which is poisonous. The victim inhaled it in an excessive amount and died on the spot, another senior police official said.
He said that the patient was not affected in the incident.
The Agripada police has registered a case under IPC section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) against the doctor, the ward boy and a woman cleaner, the police official said.
