Bengaluru hospital, doctors directed to pay Rs 5 lakh compensation for leaving needle in patient abdomen
The State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Karnataka, recently directed a Bengaluru-based hospital and its two doctors to pay Rs 5 lakh compensation to a patient for leaving a 3.2-centimetre surgical needle inside her body while conducting a Hernia and Appendix surgery.
While considering the complaint filed by the patient, the Karnataka State Consumer Court observed that after the surgery of Hernia and Appendix in the year 2004, the complainant did not undergo any surgery between 2004 and 2010, when she was admitted for removal of the said foreign body at a Private Hospital in Bengaluru.
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