Ankit Kumar Mahato, 20, who was driving the car smashed from behind by a bus at Lake Town’s Clock Tower traffic signal on Monday morning, had to be put on a ventilator on Wednesday.
Ankit had suffered a “depressed skull fracture” that doctors have not been able to operate because of “continuous bleeding”.
“His condition has deteriorated. He has been shifted to a ventilator. We have not been able to carry out a CT scan because the bleeding has not stopped. He has suffered brain stem injury and has become inoperable,” a doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital said on Thursday.
A medical board comprising doctors from neurosurgery, general medicine and anaesthesia departments was formed on Wednesday to assess his condition following which he was put on a ventilator.
He is the lone survivor of the crash that killed Shivshankar Rathi, his mother Kamala Rathi and his son Shrivatsa Rathi while they were returning from Shivshankar’s daughter’s wedding early on Monday.
A bus that was stolen from Baguiati was trying to escape a police squad and rammed into the Rathis’ car at the traffic signal.
The three occupants died on the spot while Ankit has been struggling for life at the hospital since.
Ankit, who had graduated from Maharaja Manindra Chandra College, was planning to join Bihar police.
He had started preparing for the entrance examination, said one of his family members.
“He went to his hometown in Bihar last month to meet his mother and sister. He wanted to join Bihar police and was preparing for the entrance exam,” said a relative on Thursday.
Kaushal Dujari, one of the relatives of the deceased family, said they have offered to help Ankit’s family in “all possible ways”.
“We are ready to shift him to a private hospital but we have been told that his condition is such that he cannot be shifted to a private hospital now. His condition is not stable,” Dujari said.
Rajesh Mehta, one of Ankit’s neighbours, said he was unwilling to take up a part-time job as a driver as he was preparing for the police entrance exam.
“It was his destiny that his uncle convinced him to work as a driver for a few days,” said Mehta, who has been accompanying Ankit’s family to RG Kar Medical College and Hospital since Monday.
