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They said dried plasma (or powdered plasma) would help arrest blood loss of injured soldiers in battlefields. TRICHY: Dental surgeon Dr S Sankaranarayanan, 55, from Trichy is one of the 17 people who died in a fire accident at Hotel Arpit Palace in New Delhi in the early hours on Tuesday. His family members confirmed his death on Wednesday.Sankaranarayanan is said to have died due to suffocation caused by smoke from the fire that enveloped the hotel around 4am on Tuesday. He is survived by his wife, a son and daughter.The dental surgeon checked in to the hotel on Monday night for a meeting scheduled with some government officials -- regarding a freeze dried plasma project -- in Delhi on Tuesday. The clinical trial on the project is pending.The funeral will be held at Velachery in Chennai..