Ms. Aruna Shanbag died on 18-May-2015 in KEM Hospital, Mumbai. The entire nation reacted with sadness. She was in a vegetative state after she was brutally raped by a wardboy, Sohanlal B. Valmiki, in 1973. The staff of KEM Hospital took care of her for more than four decades. The rapist was convicted and walked free from jail after 7 years and is now settled in Delhi.

            There are no words for the excellent service & care extended by the nursing staff of KEM Hospital, and also the support extended to her by the top management of the hospital – the care was so excellent that in spite of being in a vegetative state, she did not have even a single bed-sore !!

Due to pneumonia, she breathed her last on Monday. She had become an in-seperable part of KEM Hospital, the love & affection & attachment was so deep & intense that even the last rites were carried out by them