Need medical staff to be educated about MRI rooms

Miraculously, he escaped with a fractured little finger. The victim claimed that he was helping a patient by carrying an oxygen cylinder into the room

An ambulance driver carrying an oxygen cylinder got stuck in a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine in the suburbs while escorting a patient, a report said in this paper.

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Miraculously, he escaped with a fractured little finger. The victim claimed that he was helping a patient by carrying an oxygen cylinder into the room.

He claimed he was sucked in and managed to free his stuck palm and escaped with a broken finger.

One cannot help but remember a tragic case where a young man lost his life in an MRI room at a hospital, some years earlier, while carrying an oxygen cylinder inside.

While centres and hospitals may deny and protest that incidents have not occurred or that they have not erred, it is time facilities paid much greater attention to the MRI room, access and education rather than try to do damage control.

First up, all employees whether full or part time, simply everybody has to be educated about what one can and what one cannot do, what is permissible.

Most importantly there must be signboards outside the MRI room. A staffer has to be posted outside and the door firmly shut when not in use. Access to the room should be strictly monitored and restricted. There has to be much more vigilance around the MRI room. Excuses like being short-staffed or passing the buck when it comes to who allowed whom into this room, just do not cut it any longer.

Such accidents should never occur, and if they do, they need to be treated with the gravitas they deserve.  If we do  not learn from such accidents, never rectify our mistakes there is little to be said for us as people and these professional medical outfits. We need to give immediate attention to this.

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