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Chennai youth dies after hair transplantation

by IBNS 09 Jun 2016, 06:18 am

Chennai, June 9 (IBNS) A 22-year-old youth in Chennai has died two days after the surgery for hair transplantation, his parents have alleged.

Santosh, a final year medical student, who had slight baldness, underwent hair transplantation surgery last month, after which he caught fever and died, NDTV reports.

His mother, P Josebeen, a nurse, told NDTV that  her only son developed a fever immediately after the 10-hour-procedure involving around 1,200 hair transplants and died on the third day in a private hospital.

His parents allege the doctors at the Advanced Robotic Hair Transplant Centre who performed the procedure were not surgeons and the anaesthetist left soon after the procedure began. Both doctors are now missing.

NDTV quoted authorities as saying that the the hair transplant centre had obtained a licence only to run a hair salon which too expired two months ago. Although they had qualified doctors one of who was trained in China, there was no infrastructure to tackle any complication. The centre has no sterile place or an operation theatre.

The authorities have sealed the centre. The drug controller has recovered a huge stock of medicines kept without licence.

The police have filed a case of suspicious death and are now working on exhuming Santosh's body since he was buried without a post mortem.