NCDRC notice to Kolkata hospital on Rs 2.3 crore plea alleging botch-up cancer diagnosis
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New Delhi: The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has sought the reply of a private hospital in Kolkata and one of its doctors to a plea alleging medical negligence over a botch-up cancer diagnosis.
The apex consumer commission has issued notice to Sri Aurobindo Seva Kendra in Kolkata and a medicine specialist from the hospital on a plea seeking a compensation of over Rs 2.3 crore.
The commission has posted the matter for further hearing on April 11.
The NCDRC was hearing a petition filed by Sarbani Das who alleged that the hospital and the doctor, instead of noticing a ‘large opacity’ in the right lung of her husband in the X- ray, treated him for reactive arthritis for almost 10 months.
She alleged that in January, 2017, by the time they were informed that the opacity in the lung seen in the X-ray report was cancerous, her husband had reached the fourth stage of the disease.
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