City man dies after taking injection for pain at pharmacy, owner held
A Selvaraj | Jul 24, 2019, 04.04 AM IST
Chennai: A tailor with shoulder pain died on Monday after being administered an injection by a medical store owner at Ambattur, police said. Baskaran, the owner and quack, was arrested and sent to jail on Tuesday.
The victim, 42-year-old Kumar of Madhang Kuppam near Ambattur, had been struggling with an aching shoulder for the past two weeks and got treated at a private hospital. Around 8.30pm on Monday, when the pain persisted, he went to Baskaran’s Sri Sakthi Medicals on Surapattu-Ambattur Road.
Kumar showed the hospital’s medical prescription to Baskaran, 52, who gave a medicine. Kumar remained at the store that doubles up as a small nursing home with a bed for administering intravenous fluids such as saline. After an hour, Baskaran administered Kumar an injection to reduce pain. But he swooned. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him dead. The body was sent to the Government Stanley Medical Hospital for postmortem.
The Ambattur police registered a case on a complaint from Kumar’s wife, Meena, and slapped a case under Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the IPC and arrested Baskaran. Ambattur police inspector Porkodi said, “The medical shop owner administered a pain-killer injection to Kumar.”
On Tuesday morning, about half-a-dozen people from Madhang Kuppam and nearby areas queued up in front of Sri Sakthi Medicals, unaware that Baskaran had been arrested for the death of a man the previous night. Many said Baskaran, who has a B.Pharm degree, ran a medical store near MGR Statue for about 15 years before shifting to the current location at the end of 2018. A man who runs a fabricating in the area, said, “Four months ago, when a juvenile was hit by a car Baskaran gave him first aid and saved his life. One of my staff who slit his hand while cutting a glass sheet was given first aid by Baskaran and later taken to hospital.”
Most of the residents swore by Baskaran. Mukundan, who runs a briyani shop, said: “I suffered from severe cold for the past two days and he gave me medicine and administered an injection on Monday evening. I am perfectly alright now.”
Others said Baskaran never administer an injection to newcomers and onkly gave them to regular ‘patients’. Even the deceased Kumar, the said, was a regular at Baskaran’s store and often collected medicines.
A Selvaraj | Jul 24, 2019, 04.04 AM IST
Chennai: A tailor with shoulder pain died on Monday after being administered an injection by a medical store owner at Ambattur, police said. Baskaran, the owner and quack, was arrested and sent to jail on Tuesday.
The victim, 42-year-old Kumar of Madhang Kuppam near Ambattur, had been struggling with an aching shoulder for the past two weeks and got treated at a private hospital. Around 8.30pm on Monday, when the pain persisted, he went to Baskaran’s Sri Sakthi Medicals on Surapattu-Ambattur Road.
Kumar showed the hospital’s medical prescription to Baskaran, 52, who gave a medicine. Kumar remained at the store that doubles up as a small nursing home with a bed for administering intravenous fluids such as saline. After an hour, Baskaran administered Kumar an injection to reduce pain. But he swooned. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him dead. The body was sent to the Government Stanley Medical Hospital for postmortem.
The Ambattur police registered a case on a complaint from Kumar’s wife, Meena, and slapped a case under Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the IPC and arrested Baskaran. Ambattur police inspector Porkodi said, “The medical shop owner administered a pain-killer injection to Kumar.”
On Tuesday morning, about half-a-dozen people from Madhang Kuppam and nearby areas queued up in front of Sri Sakthi Medicals, unaware that Baskaran had been arrested for the death of a man the previous night. Many said Baskaran, who has a B.Pharm degree, ran a medical store near MGR Statue for about 15 years before shifting to the current location at the end of 2018. A man who runs a fabricating in the area, said, “Four months ago, when a juvenile was hit by a car Baskaran gave him first aid and saved his life. One of my staff who slit his hand while cutting a glass sheet was given first aid by Baskaran and later taken to hospital.”
Most of the residents swore by Baskaran. Mukundan, who runs a briyani shop, said: “I suffered from severe cold for the past two days and he gave me medicine and administered an injection on Monday evening. I am perfectly alright now.”
Others said Baskaran never administer an injection to newcomers and onkly gave them to regular ‘patients’. Even the deceased Kumar, the said, was a regular at Baskaran’s store and often collected medicines.
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