The Karnataka State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has ordered a hospital in Bengaluru and two surgeons to pay a compensation of Rs. 5 lakhs to a patient for surgical negligence. The patient was a 46-year-old woman who underwent a hernia repair at the hospital in 2004. During the procedure, the surgeons also removed her appendix . The patient experienced severe pain post-surgery.
The doctors considered that the pain had developed due to post-surgery discomfort and prescribed painkillers. However, the patient suffered persistent stomach and back pain for several years, leading to two additional admissions to the same hospital for the pain treatment. In 2010, due to unresolved pain, she sought help at another hospital, where a scan revealed a foreign body lodged between her stomach and backbone. At a third hospital, a 3.2 cm surgical needle embedded in her spine was surgically…
