MRI machine repair in Mumbai’s Nair Hospital to cost Rs 94 lakh

Dr Avinash Supe, a director of major BMC-run hospitals, said the civic body had even put up posters about safe practices related to MRI scans at its hospitals in the form of an advisory. The sole MRI machine at the Nair hospital has not been operational since the incident.

The hospital has a Philips Achieva 1.5t Nova dual gradient scanner. Philips will submit a technical report assessing the damage to the machine to the BMC. The machine was purchased in 2008 for Rs 7.89 crore. A senior doctor said, “The company’s team had examined the machine, and they have suggested the changes, but since it is a police case, we had to take police permission to re-open it.”

According to Agripada police, a chargesheet in the matter is yet to be filed. “We are still waiting for BMC to submit its internal inquiry report to us. We have written to Nair hospital for the same,” said senior police inspector Savlaram Agawane .

On January 27, Lalbaug resident Rajesh Maru, who had accompanied his relative to Nair hospital’s MRI room carrying an oxygen cylinder, was pulled into the MRI machine by its magnetic force as soon as he entered the room. Maru died in the incident.