Appeal to find owner of mystery wedding ring found inside air conditioning unit at Scottish hospital
An urgent appeal has been issued to find the owner of a wedding ring that was mysteriously found hidden inside an air conditioning unit at a Scottish hospital.
An urgent appeal has been issued to find the owner of a wedding ring that was mysteriously found hidden inside an air conditioning unit at a Scottish hospital.
Engineers uncovered the band of gold in a technical room that supports an MRI scanner at University Hospital Monklands in Airdrie, Lanarkshire.
Radiographer Scott Robinson said the ring was handed to staff and he has been trying to locate the owner since the discovery.
But staff told him they suspect the item could have been there for at least four years.
Mr Robinson said: The engineers removed one of the doors on the unit and found the ring.
Undated handout photo issued by NHS Lanarkshire of the wedding ring. People are desperately trying to find the owner
Pictured, the air conditioning unit at University Hospital Monklands in Airdrie, where a wedding ring was found inside
Although the ring may not be worth much money, it could have a huge sentimental and it has a distinctive gold pattern
Weve no idea how it got there or how long its been hidden under the cabinet, which stands on the floor in the MRI tech room.
The air conditioner is serviced annually so it might have been there only a year.
But the engineers were having a closer look inside it than normal this year because they were trying to find a small water leak.
So its possible the rings been there for around four years, since the equipment was installed.
Mr Robinson suspected the ring could have belonged to a member of staff so he sent an email, but to no avail.
So, the engineer believes it may have belonged to a patient or visitor but no one knows how the band ended up in the unit.
He added: We can only guess at how it came to be there. We thought a colleague may have dropped it so I put an email round the staff and several contacted me but it doesnt match the description they gave.
So it could belong to a visitor or a patient. The tech room is on the ground floor near the Emergency Department and lots of patients go past on their way to and from the wards.
Could it be that a patient on a trolley had removed their ring and it fell and rolled through the gap under the tech room door and then under the air conditioning unit?
Although the ring may not be worth much money, it could have a huge sentimental value and so Mr Robinson is desperately trying to reunite the ring with its owner.
It is a small gold ring described as quite old and has a distinctive pattern.
If the gold band rings a bell with you, please email info@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk including your contact details.
