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Ads by Google Home Top Stories Subscription Top Stories Aruna Shanbaug on ventilator support Updated: May 15, 2015 09:24 PM , By Omar Rashid | 0 comments A file photo of Aruna Shanbaug. The case of the nurse who has been lying in a vegetative state for the past 42 year had triggered a national debate on mercy killing. Aruna Shanbaug, the nurse who has been lying in a vegetative state for the past 42 years after she was brutally assaulted and raped by a hospital sweeper, is critical and on ventilator. Senior medical officer KEM hospital Pravin Bangar said Ms. Shanbaug, is suffering from pneumonia. Her condition is said to be critical but stable. “She is in the Intensive Care Unit. The hospital is doing everything it can for her treatment,” Dr. Bangar said. Read: Supreme Court disallows friend's plea for mercy killing of vegetative Aruna On a night in November 1973, Ms. 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. The brutal assault cut off blood and oxygen supply to key parts of her brain. Ms. Shanbaug has 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. Euthanasia plea Ms. Shanbaug’s case had triggered a national debate on mercy killing. In 2011, the Supreme

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    Aruna Shanbaug on ventilator supportUpdated: May 15, 2015 09:24 PM , By Omar Rashid | 0 comments

    A file photo of Aruna Shanbaug.

    The case of the nurse who has been lying in a vegetative state for the past 42 year hadtriggered a national debate on mercy killing.

    Aruna Shanbaug, the nurse who has been lying in a vegetative state for the past 42 yearsafter she was brutally assaulted and raped by a hospital sweeper, is critical and onventilator.

    Senior medical officer KEM hospital Pravin Bangar said Ms. Shanbaug, is suffering frompneumonia. Her condition is said to be critical but stable. She is in the Intensive Care Unit.The hospital is doing everything it can for her treatment, Dr. Bangar said.

    Read: Supreme Court disallows friend's plea for mercy killing of vegetative Aruna

    On a night in November 1973, Ms. Shanbaug who then worked as a junior nurse at the KingsEdward 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. Thebrutal assault cut off blood and oxygen supply to key parts of her brain. Ms. Shanbaug hasbeen in a vegetative state since and confined to a bed at the KEM hospital where nurses andthe hospital staff take care of her.

    Euthanasia plea

    Ms. Shanbaugs case had triggered a national debate on mercy killing. In 2011, the Supreme

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    Court responded to a plea for euthanasia filed by journalist Pinki Virani but turned down themercy killing petition. In her petition, Ms. Virani, who penned the book Arunas Story, hadurged the court to grant euthanasia arguing that the former nurse was virtually a deadperson.

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