Santosh’s father K. Pandiaraj, a retired employee of State Transport Corporation from Aarni depot, was busy with the election work when his wife and son decided on the treatment.
“My wife, a retired nurse, recalled that when she wanted to use the rest room at the hair transplant centre, staff there directed her to an alley which led her to an open yard. It was only then she realised that something was not right. But since her was son undergoing the procedure she held her counsel,” he said.
After the procedure everybody left the centre and she was asked to take Santosh home. “He was shivering and when my wife confronted the doctor he said my son would be fine. But when she refused to budge he made a call and then bundled them both before dropping them off at a hospital some distance away. There, the doctor who had given him anaesthesia tried to prep him up but he began having diarrhoea. The anaesthetist left instructions with the hospital to administer IV fluids and he left. Since the nurses said it would be as much as Rs. 10,000 for a three-hour stay my wife decided to bring him home after the IV fluid was administered,” Mr. Pandiaraj said.
Santosh and his mother returned home at 3 a.m. and she gave him the pills the doctors had prescribed. But by evening, he began complaining of breathlessness and the couple took him to CMC, Vellore.
