Mumbai: Former nurse of King Edward Memorial (KEM) hospital of Mumbai Aruna Shanbaug (67) who was in a coma for 42 years after a sexual assault by a wardboy in 1973, was declared dead on Monday morning.
Shanbaug was diagnosed with pneumonia last week and was put on ventilator support. On Sunday, doctors said her condition had improved slightly but she continued to remain on life support.
Shanbaug was being taken care off by a group of KEM hospital nurses and doctors for the last four decades.
Hospital authorities have appealed to the family members of Shanbaug to step forward to claim her remains for last rites.
Notify that Shanbaug who then worked as a junior nurse at the Kings Edward Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, was brutally assaulted and raped by a wardboy-cum-sweeper of the hospital, Sohanlal Bharta Valmiki, after throttling her with a dog chain on a night in November 1973.
The brutal assault cut off blood and oxygen supply to key parts of her brain. Ms. Shanbaug had been in a vegetative state since and confined to a bed at the KEM hospital where nurses and the hospital staff take care of her.
Bureau Report
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