The Punjab Human Rights Commission (PSHRC) has sought a report from the Chandigarh senior superintendent of police following the loss of life of a 30-year-old after she was given anaesthesia earlier than tooth extraction on September 21.

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Taking suo-motu cognizance of the information, Woman in chair for tooth extraction dies after being given anaesthesia, revealed in HT Chandigarh on September 22, Punjab State Human Rights Commission member Justice Nirmaljit Kaur requested SSP Kuldeep Singh Chahal to look into the criticism and submit his report earlier than the following date of listening to on December 1.

The affected person, Shrimati, who was being ready for tooth extraction at Dr Harvansh Singh Judge Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Panjab University, Chandigarh, died after being administered anaesthesia. The autopsy was carried out at Government Multi-Speciality Hospital, Sector 16, the place docs attributed the loss of life to acute pulmonary edema and cardiac arrest.

Shrimati lived along with her husband at a housing society in Sector 80, Mohali.

The incident got here two weeks after hypothesis that Propofol, an anesthetic drug given to sufferers earlier than a significant surgical procedure, had brought on 5 deaths on the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER). The 5 sufferers, who needed to bear orthopedic and neurosurgeries, have been suspected to have died after the drug was administered to them.