Health Bulletin 07/August/ 2025 - Video

The State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Delhi, recently dismissed a consumer complaint alleging medical negligence against a private hospital.

The patient had claimed that he was administered high-potency medicines daily at the hospital, leading to his deteriorating health. The State Commission noted that the complainant only made vague allegations, without detailing which medicines were administered and how the treatment provided to him constituted medical negligence.

The history of the case goes back to 2017, when the patient was suffering from pain in his right arm as well as the right side of his neck, and in an emergency, he visited Delhi-based Hospital and got admitted.

The complainant alleged that the medical superintendent of the hospital, along with his son, a doctor, gave him several high-potency medicines daily, and the complainant allegedly became 'unable to take even a loaf of bread in the name of eating and drinking'. Despite spending more than Rs 1,17,182 for the treatment, the complainant began suffering from deterioration of his health on account of several other defects of his organs.

The Patna High Court has stayed the operation of a letter issued by the Bihar Health Department on July 29, which mandated the government medical college fee structure for 50 percent of the medical seats at the private medical colleges.

While considering a plea filed by Lord Buddha Koshi Medical College, Saharsa, which challenged the government order, the HC bench comprising Justice Anil Kumar Sinha on Tuesday passed the stay order, TOI has reported.

As per the latest media report by the Times of India, the counsel for the petitioner informed the HC bench that on July 29, the Joint Secretary of the State Health Department had issued a letter to the controller of examinations of the Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board (BCECEB), directing it to admit and register students for 50% of MBBS seats in private medical colleges at the regulated fee structure applicable to govt medical institutions. The Health Department issued this directive while referring to a health department resolution dated March 14, 2023.

The Karnataka government has announced plans to establish organ transplant and retrieval centres in all 22 medical college hospitals across the state. This expansion follows the recent allocation of Rs 1 crore to Victoria Hospital, affiliated with Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, to set up an organ transplant and retrieval centre.

Medical Dialogues had previously reported that the Karnataka government has announced the establishment of South India’s first Government Organ Transplant and Retrieval Centre in Bengaluru, stated Minister for Medical Education, Skill Development and Livelihood, Sharan Prakash Patil.

Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao, speaking at a recent event organized by the Rotary Club of Organ Donation, stated that although a policy is already in place regarding organ retrieval centres in medical education institutes, its implementation remains lacking.

According to the health department, Karnataka currently has 28 Non-Transplant Human Organ Retrieval Centres (NTHORC), including some under the Department of Medical Education. Despite this, organ donation remains limited. Only 36 transplants took place over a three-year span from 2022 to 2024

For the past 10 years, a man from Assam’s Sribhumi district had been impersonating as an obstetrician and gynaecologist, defrauding patients, assisting in around 50 cesarean sections and other gynaecological surgeries, and handling several pregnancy cases at a private hospital in Silchar since 2016. The accused has now been arrested in connection with the fraud.

He had previously worked as a fourth-grade employee in various hospitals. After gaining some basic knowledge, he decided to pose as a doctor using forged documents and purchased a fake MBBS degree from the black market by paying a large sum to a degree-selling racket.

After acquiring the fake degree, he worked as an obstetrician and gynaecologist at Shiva Sundari Nari Sikshashram for several years and was also employed at other private hospitals after moving to Silchar in 2016.

Two days ago, police uncovered his fraudulent activities and arrested him while he was performing a caesarean section at Shiva Sundari Nari Sikshashram. Following his arrest, he was produced before a local court, which sent him to a six-day police remand.