Using Expired Lens in Cataract: Doctor told to pay 5 lakhs compensation
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Mumbai: Upholding the decision of a lower forum, The Maharashtra State Consumer Commission, recently slapped a compensation of Rs 5 lakh on an ophthalmologist on account of implanting an expired lens on a patient's eye.
The court rejecting the doctor’s plea on the case, imposed additional costs quantified in the sum of Rs.25,000/- payable to the complainant.
The case concerns that of a patient who had first come under treatment by ophthalmologist Dr Hitesh Chheda at Asian Eye Institute &Laser Centre in the year 2007 for cataract in the right eye. After two years of the successful surgery, in 2009, the patient started suffering from blurred vision in the left eye and was advised cataract operation in the left eye Accordingly, eye surgery was conducted on 28/10/2009 at about 8.00 a.m. and a lens was implanted in the left eye. On the same day, the patient was discharged from the hospital under discharge card in writing.
On the following day, he was called for a checkup but he complained of less vision. The doctor had advised eye drops. However, there is some swelling around his left eye and did not get the normal vision despite a surgical operation and since then had a defect in the sight of the left eye.
In his complaint, the patient stated that empty packet of the lens used for the implant was given in his custody, which was implanted had an expiry date in August 2009. Thus, it is the grievance of the complainant that despite expiry date in August 2009, the lens was used for implanting in the left eye of the complainant.
The court rejecting the doctor’s plea on the case, imposed additional costs quantified in the sum of Rs.25,000/- payable to the complainant.
The case concerns that of a patient who had first come under treatment by ophthalmologist Dr Hitesh Chheda at Asian Eye Institute &Laser Centre in the year 2007 for cataract in the right eye. After two years of the successful surgery, in 2009, the patient started suffering from blurred vision in the left eye and was advised cataract operation in the left eye Accordingly, eye surgery was conducted on 28/10/2009 at about 8.00 a.m. and a lens was implanted in the left eye. On the same day, the patient was discharged from the hospital under discharge card in writing.
On the following day, he was called for a checkup but he complained of less vision. The doctor had advised eye drops. However, there is some swelling around his left eye and did not get the normal vision despite a surgical operation and since then had a defect in the sight of the left eye.
In his complaint, the patient stated that empty packet of the lens used for the implant was given in his custody, which was implanted had an expiry date in August 2009. Thus, it is the grievance of the complainant that despite expiry date in August 2009, the lens was used for implanting in the left eye of the complainant.
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