Suicide using a ceiling fan is very much practised. Therefore, Dr R S Sharma, a cardiologist from Madhya Pradesh and a professor in Government Medical College in Jabalpur have got a patent for an unusual invention— a suicide-proof ceiling fan. Intellectual Property of India has granted patent to Dr Sharma on August 1, 2019, six years after he invented the suicide-proof ceiling fan. Dr Sharma calls his fan "a simple machine equipped by using simple common sense." Dr Sharma said to TOI that the inspiration came from a real-life experience when a teenaged boy in his neighborhood committed suicide after failing the Class 12 examination.
His devastated father kept on cursing the day when he replaced the table fan with a ceiling fan in his room. That incident lead the doctor to think about how to design a ceiling fan with built-in safety features so that it won’t be used as a death tool. One…
