Patient dies after MTP at 26 weeks: NCDRC slaps Rs1 crore compensation on Moolchand Hospital, gynecologists - Video
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The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission recently held Shri MoolChand Khairati Ram Hospital and Ayurvedic Research Institute and its Gynecologist guilty of medical negligence for conducting Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) during the 26th week of pregnancy of a patient, who died during the procedure in 2003.
Although the top consumer court noted that the patient and her relatives wished for the abortion due to possible abnormalities of the fetus, it observed that "Even if the patient or her attendants or relations were insisting on medical termination of pregnancy, the hospital was bound by the provisions of the MTP Act, 1971 and ought not to have undertaken termination at the 26th / 28th weeks of pregnancy."
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