SC directs doctor to pay Rs 2 lakh compensation for medical negligence leading to vision loss
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The Supreme Court recently directed a Haryana-based doctor to pay Rs 2 lakh compensation for medical negligence leading to the vision loss in the left eye of an 84-year-old patient.
Apart from this, the bench has asked the doctor to pay another Rs 50,000 as legal cost on the doctor for making a false representation before the State Commission claiming that the amount of compensation had been paid to the man in the year 2011.
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