Holding the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), a premier hospital of the country responsible for negligence, the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) asked it to pay Rs 25 lakh in compensation to the kin of a cardiac patient who died after being "tossed like a chattel". An employee of the erstwhile Delhi Electricity Supply Undertaking was advised by this hospital on April 21, 1997 for coronary artery bypass graft and asked to deposit Rs 70,000. He arranged the money and deposited it with the hospital on July 23, 1997.Two days later, he was rushed to the emergency ward at 2am with severe pain in the chest and the left side of the neck.
The doctors there referred him to the Safdarjung hospital at 5am on the ground that it had no bed to spare. No ambulance was provided and he was shifted to the Safdarjung hospital in a car. However, the employee of the…
