Doctor cannot be held responsible for Shortage of Blood, holds Court
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AHMEDABAD: A doctor cannot be held responsible for medical negligence for not keeping blood bottles in his hospital.
Making the above observation, Gujrat State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission gave relief to a medical practitioner, who had been asked to pay a compensation to the family of a deceased patient by the district forum, by quashing the said order and absolving of the doctor of medical negligence.
The case goes back to year 2008, when a patient was brought to the hospital of Dr Navinchardra Vaghela n Deesa town in Banaskantha district, north Gujarat. The woman, Manjuben delivered a baby, but continued to bleed profusely and died due to non-availability of blood on time reports TOI.
Blaming the doctor for the death of his wife, the patient’s husband filed a case with the Consumer Dispute Redressal Forum, Banaskantha district and in 2010, the forum held the doctor guilty asking him to pay compensation to the patient’s husband.
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