KEM remembers Aruna Shanbaug on her 68th birthday

Nurses at KEM hospital on Monday remembered their colleague Aruna Shanbaug on her birth anniversary with the hospital administration deciding to name Room No 4, where she stayed for 42 years, after her. (Source: Express photo by Ganesh Shirsekar)

A commemorative programme was organised in the hospital auditorium by the nursing staff. (Source: Express photo by Ganesh Shirsekar)

The hospital nurses fondly remembered Shanbaug and visited her room in the morning to offer tributes. (Source: Express photo by Ganesh Shirsekar)

Shanbaug, a nurse at the hospital, existed comatose in the room after being subjected to a brutal sexual assault in 1973 by a ward boy, who tried to throttle her with a dog chain, leaving her in a permanently vegetative state. (Source: Express photo by Ganesh Shirsekar)

Shanbaug was confined to a bed in a special room allotted to her inside Ward No 4 on the hospital’s ground floor ever since she was attacked by ward boy Sohanlal Walmiki on November 27, 1973. (Source: Express photo by Ganesh Shirsekar)