Before senior police inspector Vilas Joshi breathed his last at Bandra's Lilavati Hospital, doctors had put in their best efforts to save his life. After the incident that happened around 8.40pm at Vakola police station, policemen had rushed Joshi, Dilip Shirke and Balasaheb Aher to VN Desai Hospital in Santa Cruz. While Shirke was declared dead on admission, Joshi and Aher were shifted to Lilavati Hospital by 9pm.
Joshi had turned pale while being wheeled into the casualty ward. His blood pressure had dropped to 30 mm/Hg. He had suffered from two cardiac arrests, one in the casualty and the other at the operation theatre.
Dr Jalil Parkar, pulmonologist at Lilavati Hospital, said, "Having suffered massive blood loss, his haemoglobin levels were stooping as low as three units. In an attempt to revive him, an endotracheal tube was inserted to ensure that his breathing is not compromised."
Joshi was shifted to the operation theatre where a team of five doctors including Dr Parkar, gastro-intestinal surgeon Dr Paresh Varty, general surgeon Dr AR Undre operated upon him for up to three hours. "Joshi had sustained multiple bullet injuries in the abdomen and suffered massive blood loss. While he was being operated on, up to fifteen units of blood were transfused in an attempt to stabilise his condition," said Parkar.
With maximum dosage of BP drugs being pumped into Joshi's system, his condition improved a little with 70 mm/Hg of BP being recorded. However, the BP was dangerously swaying and dropped again to 30 mm/Hg, making it difficult for surgeons to operate on him.
One bullet was removed from his body, said doctors. As his BP plummeted, Joshi's abdomen was surgically opened. Dctors made their way from the abdomen up to the diaphragm in the chest wall and administered an internal cardiac massage to Joshi for nearly fifty minutes with their hands. "No amount of cardiac massage could keep the blood pumping in the heart. He suffered from a second cardiac arrest on the operation table," said Parkar.
Joshi's main abdominal vessels were torn. He suffered from major tears to the large and the small intestines due to ricocheting of the bullets.
Joshi's body was sent for post mortem to state-run JJ Hospital. The report indicates that he suffered from internal bleeding due to three bullet injuries. Meanwhile, Shirke's Post mortem was conducted in BMC-run Sion Hospital. "Shirke shot himself from a close range and the entry as well as exit wounds in the head were recorded. He committed suicide," said a forensic medicine doctor from the hospital.
Balasaheb Aher, a wireless operator who also sustained a bullet injury to his left thigh, is recuperating at Lilavati Hospital. "He is traumatised but out of danger. We have stopped his bleeding but will surgically remove the bullet soon," said a doctor from the hospital.
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