Man Bitten By Rat Dies at Rajawadi Hospital in Mumbai
A patient admitted at the civic body-run Rajawadi Hospital in Ghatkopar, whose eye was reportedly nibbled at by a rat inside the ICU died on 23 June evening.
Shrinivas Yellapa, 24, was admitted to Mumbai’s Rajawadi hospital on 20 June due to liver complications. He was in the ICU and on a ventilator. Rajawadi is a BMC run hospital. When Yellappa's sister visited him in the hospital, she noticed a bandage on his eye. Under the bandage there was blood. Apparently a rat had bitten Yellappa. While the exact injury to his eye is not known yet, hospital superintendent Dr Vidya Thakur claimed there is no damage to his eyesight. Mayor Kishori Pednekar visited the patient in the ICU. According to her, the ICU is properly sealed but since it was on the ground floor, a rat might have sneaked in when the door was opened. The patient named Yellappa passed away on 23 June evening but the exact cause of his death was not immediately clear. The body has been sent for post-mortem.
This is not the first time such an incident has been reported in a civic-run hospital in Mumbai. In 2017, rats had nibbled on two patients at Shatabdi hospital in Kandivali. A staffer of Rajawadi hospital said, “This hospital has been in a state of neglect for a long time. The superintendent has been asking for funds for repairs since the past five years. Though Rajawadi is one of the biggest hospital in the eastern suburbs, the BMC has not been sanctioning enough funds.’’
