Hospital to pay Rs 15 thousand compensation for botched Uro-surgery
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Madurai: A consumer court here has directed a private hospital in the city to pay a compensation of Rs 15,000 to a man for causing damage to his prostate gland during a surgery in 2009.
Besides, the Madurai district consumer forum also ordered the hospital to pay Rs 3,000 towards cost of the case.
The Judge Balasundarakumar and member Bhagyalakshmi who heard the consumer litigation recently observed that the prostate gland of the consumer, Mani was damaged due to the carelessness of the doctors who operated on him for hydrocele.
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