Daijiworld Media Network -Mumbai

Mumbai, Nov 21: A week after inhaling the poisonous fumes that claimed two lives inside an underground sewage treatment plant tank in Powai, 23-year-old Sudam Mandal stood quietly in the morning rush outside KEM Hospital, Parel his yellow shirt neatly tucked into his jeans, his breathing still uneven.

Mandal, who survived the deadly incident that killed his maternal nephew and another worker, queued up at 7am for an OPD token. The workers had been sent into the tank with nothing more than flimsy masks a space that should have contained treated water but instead held toxic sludge. Police are probing the case as one of manual scavenging, and an FIR has been filed against FK Tech, the agency that employed them.

His struggle did not end with survival. After

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