Madras HC directs infertility treatment centre to pay Rs 40 lakh to woman for botched up surgery resulting in punctured colon - Video
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In a recent order, the Madras High Court bench has directed a private infertility hospital in Chennai to pay Rs 40 lakh compensation to a Sri Lankan Tamil woman, who faced perforation of sigmoid colon during a laparoscopic surgery at the hospital.
"This Court directs the defendants to pay jointly and severally a sum of Rs.40,00,000/- (Rupees Forty Lakhs only) as compensation to the plaintiff with interest at the rate of 12% per annum from the date of plaint till the date of decree and at the rate of 6% per annum from the date of decree till the date of realisation," ordered the HC bench Justice G. Chandrasekharan.
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