THE health department formed a two-member committee to inquire into the death of a 26year-old man from Puducherry who was admitted to a private hospital in Chennai for weight reduction surgery. The deceased was identified as S Hemachandran, a native of Puducherry.
An official said according to a preliminary report, the man, weighing around 150 kg, who was admitted for a metabolic and bariatric surgery suffered a cardiac arrest on the operation table while the doctors inserted a scope, a medical instrument, through his mouth.
He was immediately shifted to another hospital and was in the ICU for two days. However he died on Tuesday.
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