IMA directed to pay Rs 4.5 lakh, in medical negligence case of member
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Andhra Pradesh: The Indian Medical Association, Andhra Pradesh branch has been directed by the Kurnool District Consumer Forum to pay Rs 4.5 lakh as compensation and medical expenses to a patient in a medico legal case involving its member doctor who had availed its indemnity scheme.
The case related to a patient, who in his complaint alleged that Dr G Krishna, urologist at Gowri Gopal Hospital in Budhawarpeta in Kurnool performed nephrectomy on the patient when his complaint was stones in the urethra. The patient alleged that after his kidney was removed, his condition was not properly treated and he had to spend more money for treatment in other hospitals. "I have undergone five surgeries till 2012. For two years I suffered pain," the complainant stated. He further added that it was because of the negligence of Dr Krishna that he had to have the kidney removed and now has to live on one kidney.
In response to the complaint, the concerned doctor and the hospital stated that the operation was performed with a consent of complainant and his wife and found that left kidney is full of puss and infected which requires nephrectomy, therefore removed it and specimen was sent to Pathology Department it is preserved till today in the Pathology Department.
After going through the entire case record and guidelines the court observed that the doctor choose to remove the stag horn calculi by adopting the open pyelothithotomy stone surgery. "
The case related to a patient, who in his complaint alleged that Dr G Krishna, urologist at Gowri Gopal Hospital in Budhawarpeta in Kurnool performed nephrectomy on the patient when his complaint was stones in the urethra. The patient alleged that after his kidney was removed, his condition was not properly treated and he had to spend more money for treatment in other hospitals. "I have undergone five surgeries till 2012. For two years I suffered pain," the complainant stated. He further added that it was because of the negligence of Dr Krishna that he had to have the kidney removed and now has to live on one kidney.
In response to the complaint, the concerned doctor and the hospital stated that the operation was performed with a consent of complainant and his wife and found that left kidney is full of puss and infected which requires nephrectomy, therefore removed it and specimen was sent to Pathology Department it is preserved till today in the Pathology Department.
After going through the entire case record and guidelines the court observed that the doctor choose to remove the stag horn calculi by adopting the open pyelothithotomy stone surgery. "
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