How did paralyzed man pull off tube, ask Nair hospital patient’s kin

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A day after three doctors of BYL Nair Hospital accused the family a man who died there of attacking them, the kin hit back saying they were being "falsely" charged. Refuting an allegation by Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors that the patient removed a tube himself, they said he couldn't have done it as he had been paralysed. They have also accused the doctors of revealing his TB-HIV status.
"Yes, there was a verbal fight between us and the doctors, but we didn't lay a finger on them," said the deceased man's son.

The Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) on Sunday had alleged that three doctors were "verbally abused, slapped and manhandled" by the relatives, based on which one of the family members was arrested.
The Sunday incident inside ward 23 of the Mumbai Central hospital was triggered by an altercation between the family members and resident doctors over the detachment of the patient's nasal ventilation tube. MARD's allegation that the tube was removed by the patient himself has stumped the family. "After suffering a paralytic attack, my father's right side hardly had any sensation. How can he pull out the tube himself," the son questioned.
According to the family, they were asked to step out of the ward around 6pm by the housekeeping staff. "As my mother returned after 10 minutes, she found that his nasal tube was removed. I rushed to the ward after she called me and found that his pulse and BP were very low. When we ran towards the doctors' station asking why the tube was detached, they charged us, saying we had removed it. Can there be a more absurd allegation?" the son said, adding that soon after, his father was declared dead.
He added that as upset relatives tried to question doctors, the medicos started filming them, further heating up the situation. MARD had said doctors Dipali Patil, Gaurav Gunjan and Moiz Vora were abused and files flung on them. Video footage of the incident also showed relatives hurling abuses.
Nair dean Dr Ramesh Bharmal said the incident was being investigated by head of the medicine department and one of the deputy deans. The patient was admitted on June 10 for a decompression surgery of the brain, which was carried out on June 15. "He was being treated in ward 18 since and was shifted to ward 23 around 2.30pm only after his condition deteriorated on Sunday. Due to his neurological condition, he'd often shake his head vigorously. His tube may have got detached because of that, but we are still investigating," the dean said. Doctors have said the family was counselled about his critical condition, something the family has corroborated. "Why was my father not shifted to an ICU? Why was he put on a ventilator in the middle of a ward?" asked the son, demanding a probe.

The son said his father's disease status was exposed. "My father was a good man and didn't deserve to die with the label of a stigmatised disease," he said. He said a statement released by MARD contained his father's name, while a text message created by police spelt out his diseases. The family has also contested the HIV diagnosis and said a report from a private lab had shown he was negative.
A 39-year-old relative of the family, arrested and produced before a court on Monday, was sent to judicial custody.
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