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The high-light, CRITERIA , "KEYWORDS" are " ... it is expected to anticipate all future complications and keep the arrangement of all experts in the field ready otherwise it should not undertake such patients ..."
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Published on June 25 2008, Page 2
Newspaper : Hindustan Times, NewDelhi Edition.
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Title : Hospital asked to pay Rs 60,000 for man's death
NEGLIGENT POST-OPERATIVE care has landed a city hospital in trouble with a consumer court, which has directed the hospital and one of its doctors to pay Rs 60,000 compensation to the family of a 33-year-old patient who died soon after a hip-joint surgery .
"Whenever any nursing home or hospital undertakes to treat a patient or conduct any surgery, it is expected to anticipate all future complications and keep the arrangement of all experts in the field ready otherwise it should not undertake such patients," the Delhi Consumer Commission said.
The Commission directed Ram Lal Kundan Lal Orthopaedic Hospital and its senior surgeon Dr S.P. Mandal to pay Rs 60,000, including litigation cost, to the widow of Narinder Batra who died on February 1, 1999 within four hours of the surgery .
"We hold the hospital and the doctor guilty jointly and severally for limited negligence for lack of post-operative care and not making available the services of a doctor immediately," the Commission headed by Justice J.D. Kapoor said.
Batra, an employee of State Bank of Patiala, who was having cardiac problem, was admitted to the hospital for the surgery on March 31, 1999. It was alleged he was administered anaesthesia and later operated upon despite his high blood pressure, which led to the deterioration in his condition, resulting in a sudden cardiac arrest.
Seeking Rs 19.5 lakh as compensation, Batra's widow alleged that the hospital did not provide immediate help of a cardiologist to the patient and also did not allow them to take the victim to a super speciality centre.
