MAN ON VENTILATOR, WIFE WINS HC NOD TO ACCESS HIS BANK ACCOUNTS

'Wife sole dependent of the account holder, entitled to the accounts'

- YATHIRAJU @Bengaluru

THE Karnataka High Court appointed the wife of a retired man as his guardian to operate his three savings bank accounts in two nationalised banks since he is lying in ICU for more than nine months and cannot write and sign due to 'Guillain Barre Syndrome' (GBS).

The husband developed the GBS just prior to his retirement after attaining the age of superannuation in November 2024. GBS is a syndrome which is known to be a rare neurological disorder in which a person's immune system is compromised by an attack on the part of the peripheral nervous system, and the husband is in the ICU from June 23, 2024 and on a ventilator.

The doctors of the Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute diagnosed him with GBS in November 2024, and requirement of a ventilator appeared to have become permanent.