New Delhi: Apollo Doctor exonerated of medical negligence

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Consumer Protection Act should not be a halter round the neck
New Delhi: Doctors can only provide treatment and cannot guarantee cure. The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, in a recent judgment of Satender Kumar v/s INDRAPRASTHA APOLLO HOSPITAL & ANR, was found implying the same, where it was seen reiterating that Consumer Protection Act should not be a halter round the neck.
The case is that of one Satendra Kumar, who was admitted to Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in 2012 under the care of orthopaedic surgeon Dr Raju Vaishya after sustaining a fracture on his right leg due to a fall. The patient suffered a "Right distal femur shaft fracture with CAD" and the doctor performed "closed reduction and internal fixation by nailing (AO interlocking nail 400 x 11 mm) on 14/06/12 under GA". Thereafter the patient met with another accident in the year 2013 and this time suffered a fracture on his left leg. He was again taken to Apollo Hospital, where Dr Vaishya performed an Open Reduction and intramedullary nailing left proximal femur.
The patient complained that both the surgeries were not successful as he suffered time and again late night pain. In the year 2014, the rod inserted in his right leg got bent for which he got operated at Saket City where Dr U. K. Sahoo diagnosed it as a ‘Non-union fracture shaft of femur Right with implant in situ" and re-operated on his right leg performing exchange nailing right femur (Synthes) with Bone grafting (type of Anesthesia – CSE)
New Delhi: Doctors can only provide treatment and cannot guarantee cure. The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, in a recent judgment of Satender Kumar v/s INDRAPRASTHA APOLLO HOSPITAL & ANR, was found implying the same, where it was seen reiterating that Consumer Protection Act should not be a halter round the neck.
The case is that of one Satendra Kumar, who was admitted to Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in 2012 under the care of orthopaedic surgeon Dr Raju Vaishya after sustaining a fracture on his right leg due to a fall. The patient suffered a "Right distal femur shaft fracture with CAD" and the doctor performed "closed reduction and internal fixation by nailing (AO interlocking nail 400 x 11 mm) on 14/06/12 under GA". Thereafter the patient met with another accident in the year 2013 and this time suffered a fracture on his left leg. He was again taken to Apollo Hospital, where Dr Vaishya performed an Open Reduction and intramedullary nailing left proximal femur.
The patient complained that both the surgeries were not successful as he suffered time and again late night pain. In the year 2014, the rod inserted in his right leg got bent for which he got operated at Saket City where Dr U. K. Sahoo diagnosed it as a ‘Non-union fracture shaft of femur Right with implant in situ" and re-operated on his right leg performing exchange nailing right femur (Synthes) with Bone grafting (type of Anesthesia – CSE)
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