SC upholds NCDRC order directing 6 Chhattisgarh-based doctors to pay compensation for deficiency in service - Video
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The Supreme Court recently upheld the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission's (NCDRC) order directing six Chhattisgarh-based doctors to pay compensation for the deficiency in service committed while conducting an Endoscopic Polypectomy procedure on a patient and further while providing her follow-up treatment.
Suffering a cardiac arrest after the procedure, the patient died. Accordingly, the NCDRC bench directed the doctors involved in the treatment to pay Rs 4,50,000 to the complainants, refund Rs 1,20,000 spent on medical treatment and pay Rs 20,000 as legal costs.
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