Patient dies during appendicitis surgery: Consumer Court holds surgeon, 2 anaesthesiologists, hospital guilty of negligence
The State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission of Andhra Pradesh directed a Visakhapatnam based Private hospital and its 3 doctors including a surgeon and 2 Anaesthesiologists, to pay Rs 40 lakh as compensation to the family of a patient, who died after undergoing surgery for Appendicitis.
Referring to the medical records, the Consumer court noted that the records did not contain details regarding what happened within the operation theatre before, during and after the surgery.
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