Why doctors are now scared? A young bank executive who was treated in a tertiary care hospital for Dengue succumbed to a rare complication despite best efforts. Over 4 years later, the hospital along with the team of doctors who had attended to the patient, received quite recently, a notice from a Consumer Forum Notice wherein the relative of the patient has demanded a compensation of Rs 50 crores! A Supreme Court judgment awarded an Ophthalmologist and the Eye hospital Rs 1.4 crores as damages to the parents of a baby who developed Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) on account of the negligence of the doctor.
In another case of ROP, compensation of Rs 76 lakhs was awarded. Relatives of a patient who died due to unknown reasons following a hair transplant have claimed Rs 2 crores as compensation. The Supreme Court awarded a record compensation payout for medical negligence that…
