The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), in agreement with the State Consumer court decision, exonerated a hospital and its anesthetist from charges of medical negligence during the intestinal resection anastomosis operation that resulted in the patient’s death. Case history A 32-year-old patient had been operated for intestinal obstruction. After the operation, while transferring, the patient suffered sudden cardiorespiratory arrest twice at an interval of three hours, and around 30 minutes later, the patient was declared dead.
The deceased’s wife and other legal heirs filed a medical negligence complaint against the anesthetists. The State Consumer Court had dismissed the complaint earlier, opining that the complainant had failed to prove negligence, even though an expert report of forensic medicine spoke of medical negligence. Petitioner’s plea The patient was…
