INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
cannula.Accordingly, the patient, identified as a management assistant of the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA), had initially
received treatment at a hospital in Galle almost two weeks ago, as he had been suffering from high fever.A cannula was then inserted into
his veins, through which he is believed to have developed a bacterial infection.The deceased has subsequently been transferred to the
Panadura Base Hospital, where doctors had tried to transfer him again, in light of the fact that he was a heart patient.Prior to this,
however, the patient had died
Doctors of the Panadura Base Hospital attributed the death to an infection likely to have developed via the cannula administered.The death
Chamodi Snadeepani, who died while receiving treatment at the Peradeniya Teaching Hospital after suffering an allergic reaction to an
antibiotic administered via a cannula.
