Aruna Shanbaug, the Mumbai nurse who was in coma for 42 years after being brutally raped by a hospital staff member in 1973, passed away here on Monday.
According to reports, Shanbaug had been in critical condition for the past month. She was suffering from pneumonia and was on ventilator support.
The 67-year-old nurse was in the medical ICU of the King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital in Mumbai's Parel area.
Shanbaug was a junior nurse at the hospital when she was brutally assaulted, raped and throttled with a dog chain by a ward boy.
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