Breach of duty in providing medical advice: Consumer court directs nephrologist, hospital to pay Rs 3 lakh compensation
Observing that active systemic infections are potential reasons for excluding transplant recipients, the Telangana State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission recently directed a Nephrologist to pay Rs 3 lakh to the parents of a diseased patient suffering from 'Vesicoureteral Reflux Nephropathy'.
Such a direction came from the State consumer court as it opined that the advice of the treating doctor for a kidney transplant was lacking in strength and as the patient was very vulnerable and indications that he was not a candidate for transplant surgery are not ruled out, such an advice of transplant was wrong.
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