Surgery undertaken without necessary skill, records manipulated! Delhi Doctors, Hospital ordered to pay Rs 48 lakh compensation for negligence
New Delhi: The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, New Delhi recently directed a city-based hospital and its doctors to pay Rs 48 lakh to a man who lost his wife due to alleged medical negligence by the treating hospital and its doctors. While the gynaecologist at the hospital was held guilty of undertaking the surgery (Diagnostic and Operative Hysteroscopy) without the necessary skills, the hospital was held liable for laxity in not ensuring the proper documentation of the events, progress notes, nursing notes and reports of the diagnostic tests and for manipulating and withholding the same. Another doctor at the hospital was held liable for uan nethical partnership with the gynaecologist and the hospital in manipulating the medical records
The history of the case goes back to 2013 when the patient was admitted to the city-based hospital to be operated on for Asherman's Syndrome by Diagnostic and Operative Hysteroscopy +D&C. The complainant, husband of the patient, was informed that the patient had developed some complications. After a few minutes, the doctors informed that they were unable to handle the complications developed during the surgery and for this, they were shifting the patient to Fortis Escorts Hospital, where the patient breathed her last.
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