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Tamil Nadu-Chennai
By Ramya Kannan
As distraught family members struggled to come to terms with the sudden expiry of Guna, doctors are foxed by the tragic turn of events themselves. Having been brought to the dental unit of the hospital for a `routine' extraction procedure, Guna is said to have collapsed after the procedure, following `excessive bleeding'. According to hospital sources, the patient was immediately rushed to the operation theatre, but the bleeding could not be controlled and she died. Shocked family members protested at the way the things were being handled in the hospital. Initially unwilling to allow a postmortem, they later agreed, at the intervention of senior hospital authorities. The authorities claimed that all precautions were taken during the extraction, which was handled by a senior professional and preliminary investigation ruled out medical negligence. While initial examination revealed that the cause of death was `haemorrhagic shock', the Director of Medical Education, C. Ravindranath, said a postmortem was ordered and samples from the bone marrow and spleen were taken, as physicians suspected an `unidentified bleeding disorder'. The results, which would be available in 48 hours, would confirm the actual nature of the problem. A senior physician would conduct an enquiry.
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