Delay in diagnosing complications after bariatric surgery results in patient death: NCDRC directs Kolkata hospital, doctors to pay Rs 75 lakh
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The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) recently directed a Kolkata-based hospital and its two doctors to pay Rs 75 lakh compensation and Rs 2 lakh litigation cost to the family of a man, who died due to complications after undergoing sleeve gastronomy, in the form of bariatric surgery.
After the patient's condition worsened a week after the surgery, he was taken to the hospital again. However, the doctors at the hospital, a doctor of General Medicine and an Anesthetist delayed conducting a CT scan to diagnose the problem. Due to this delay, gangrene developed in the patient's intestine, opined the NCDRC bench.
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