'High-potency medicines administered daily': Consumer Court dismisses medical negligence allegations, grants relief to Delhi Hospital - 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.