Dr Deepak Amrapurkar, a renowned gastroenterologist from Mumbai, who died after falling into a manhole was cremated by family members at Shivaji Park crematorium on Thursday.
Amrapurkar fell in the manhole on Monday, his body was found near the Worli sea front by BMC workers who informed the police and fire brigade. The body was sent for post-mortem at as Sion hospital.
A large crowd including patients gathered to witness the cremation of the doctor. “We have lost a friend and a colleague. I have known him since the day he was studying gastroenterology and he was one of the best gastroenterologist in the country. It is not only a loss to medical fraternity but to the entire society at large. We need to look at our entire system,” said senior cardiologist Dr Satyawan Sharma.
Sharma had also treated Amrapurkar for his heart ailment in the past. Amrapurkar had also promised to visit him soon for a check up.
“I met him the other day. He was so jovial and said that he had completed a year after angioplasty and that he will come and see me again. But, little did I know that he will never come back,” said Sharma.
“It is not just a case of losing a friend, the flood has also claimed many other lives. We want to tell the government that it is not acceptable,” said Dr M G Nariyani.
ALL FOR NOTHING
“It is such a shame that we want to turn Mumbai into Shanghai. Despite all the development we lost such an eminent and internationally known doctor to a freak accident. The infrastructure needs to be reworked,” said senior spine surgeon Dr Arvind Kulkarni.
Kulkarni added that Amrapurkar was a very straightforward person. “He took gastroenterology to a different level. He has traveled all over the world for conferences and published research work. He is a role model for many, ” added Kulkarni.
While family and friends grieved over the loss, there were several patients too who felt the loss of an eminent doctor. The doctors present at the cremation slammed the local authorities for their apathy.
“There are two things that we have to do. We don’t have to believe in the system. I am going to ask all my colleagues to never depend on the system. I am going to start a campaign to cover all the manholes in the city with a grill. This death is unexplainable and it was preventable,” said cardiac surgeon Dr Anirudh Trivedi.
In a related development, the Federation Of Retail Traders Welfare Association filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Bombay High Court asking that a case under Section 304-A of the Indian Penal Code be filed i nthe death of Dr Deepak Amarapurkar.
PIL AGAINST AUTHORITIES
The IPC section deals with death due to negligence. The PIL has marked the state of Maharashtra, the Muncipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, and Commissioner of Mumbai Police, among other officials and bodies, as respondents.
The petitioners have also asked for a compensation of Rs 50 lakh to be paid by the BMC to a charitable institute or an NGO. Ashish Mehta, one of the advocates for the petitioners, said, “The money is not for the family. We just want this money to be given by the BMC Treasury to drive in a point. We want this to be a lesson for them.”
The petitioners also want that an advisory committee of ex-bureaucrats and former technocrats be formed to give suggestions in operating manholes. The PIL will be presented tomorrow before a division bench headed by Bombay High Court Chief Justice Manjula Chellur by advocates Sujay Kantawala and Mehta.
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