Dr Raj Nilesh Yadav was 31, from Alwar, and in his first year as a resident in the anaesthesia department at AIIMS Jodhpur. On Tuesday he was posted in the operation theatre.

He went on his break at about one. There is a break room off the OT complex with an attached bathroom, and that is where he went.

An hour and a half passed, then closer to two, and he had not come back. His colleagues tried his phone and heard it ringing inside the bathroom. The door was locked from the inside. They knocked, got no answer, and broke it open. He was on the floor, unconscious. They resuscitated him there and moved him to Emergency, where he was declared dead.

That account comes from the station house officer at Basni, Nitin Dave. Police have taken the body to the mortuary and are holding the post-mortem until the family reaches Jodhpur. His phone and other material from the room are being examined. The reason has not been established.

He was not new to the building. He did his MBBS at AIIMS Jodhpur and then left for Delhi. Four or five years later he sat the postgraduate entrance again and took an anaesthesia seat back at the institute where he had trained. That was last year.

AIIMS Jodhpur has not commented.

A video circulating on X shows doctors confronting the head of anaesthesia and the hospital director over working hours.

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