A 22-year-old medical student died after a hair transplant in Chennai, in Southern India. Santosh had slight baldness and decided to go for a hair transplant procedure last month, and just two days later he was dead.
Santosh developed a fever immediately after the 10-hour-procedure involving around 1,200 hair transplants. His mother, P Josebeen, could only look at her only son helplessly as he died on the third day in a private hospital.
His parents allege the doctors at the hair Transplant Centre who performed the procedure were not surgeons and the anaesthetist left soon after the procedure began. Both doctors are now missing.
"For them, only money matters. They don't value life. I lost my son in a short time. This should not happen to anyone. We need justice, arrest both doctors," Ms Josbeen said, who had paid Rs. 73,000 (Approx. $ 1500) for the procedure.
Authorities say 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, officials said.
The state medical council has sent a notice to the owners while the health department is recommending using a tough law to regulate such centres dealing with surgical procedures including hair and wart removal, often masquerading as beauty parlours, spas and hair treatment centres.
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.
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