Rs 4 Crore Bill, 27 Months: Mumbai Couple's Struggle To Keep Son Alive
The Harish Rana judgment brought national focus to patients trapped between life and death. Today, the case of Anand Dixit in Mumbai is raising similar questions, as he remains in a vegetative state more than two years after a devastating accident. Harish Rana had suffered serious brain injuries after a fall from the fourth floor in 2013. Since then, he had been on life support and confined to a bed with a tracheostomy tube for respiration and a gastrojejunostomy tube for feeding. After years of exhausting hope against every medical certainty, Rana's parents filed a plea seeking euthanasia for him, which was finally allowed by the Supreme Court. But in a quiet corner of Mumbai, 35-year-old Anand Dixit has become the living shadow of that very tragedy. For 2.5 years, Anand has remained trapped in a persistent vegetative state. Like Rana, Anand is a prisoner of a "living death," but his family refuses to let him go.
