Not following ABC of trauma care: NCDRC slaps Rs 30 lakh compensation on Hospital, Surgeon for negligence
The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission recently held Kerala based Hospital and a Facio Maxillary Surgeon, vicariously guilty of medical negligence while conducting interdental wiring on a patient suffering from maxillo facial injuries.Observing that the doctors of the hospital had not even adopted even the basics of ABC of trauma while handling the patient, who died from...
The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission recently held Kerala based Hospital and a Facio Maxillary Surgeon, vicariously guilty of medical negligence while conducting interdental wiring on a patient suffering from maxillo facial injuries.
Observing that the doctors of the hospital had not even adopted even the basics of ABC of trauma while handling the patient, who died from asphyxia, the top consumer court directed them to pay Rs 30 lakh as compensation to the family of the deceased patient.
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