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A junior
nurse, Aruna Shanbaug was brutally raped by a sweeper boy Sohanlal
Walmiki on November 27, 1973 when she was changing and had been in a
vegetative state since then.
World's oldest comatose
patient, nurse Aruna Shanbaug, who had been in a vegetative state ever
since she was raped, died in Mumbai's KEM Hospital on Monday morning
after remaining in coma for almost 42 years, Dean Avinash Supe said.
Doctors
at Mumbai's state-run KEM Hospital, where she worked and was raped,
said Shanbaug was suffering from pneumonia and was on ventilator
support, but added that her condition is improving.
Dean Avinash Supe said police permissions and other formalities
are being completed before finalizing
Supe has made a public appeal to help trace any relatives or
people close to Shanbaug who can get in touch with the hospital
immediately.
A junior nurse, Shanbaug was brutally raped by contract sweeper
boy Sohanlal B. Walmiki in the same hospital on the night of November
27, 1973 when she was changing.
While indulging in the act,
he had choked her with a chain which cut off oxygen supply to her
brain, resulting in injuries to the brain stem and cervical chord injury
that left her in a vegetative state since then.
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