An NGO, the People for Better Treatment, fighting for patient rights pushed for amending the Consumer Protection Act towards disposing of medical negligence cases through fast-track courts. The NCDRC received a memorandum in this regard seeking an amendment of the 1986 Act for curbing long delays in these types of cases.
President of one of the humanitarian organisation noted that inordinate delays in disposal of such cases have added to the mental torment and financial burden of ill-fated victims' families? He further wrote in a letter to retired NCDRC President Justice, the inordinate delay in disposal of medical negligence cases is primarily because a large number of other consumer litigation mostly involving ordinary commercial disputes are clubbed together in the same roster along with serious cases like permanent physical disability or loss of human life against delinquent…
