Homeopath misrepresents herself as Gynaecologist: Consumer Court slaps Rs 30 Lakh compensation for medical negligence
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Holding medical negligence, the State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (SCDRC), Lucknow recently directed a city-based private nursing home and a homeopathy practitioner to pay Rs 30 lakh as compensation to a man whose pregnant wife died while giving birth to a child at the facility.
While considering the complaint by the man, the State consumer court noted that the concerned Homeopath had misrepresented herself claiming to be a Gynaecologist and prescribed allopathic medicine.
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