A Hyderabad-based construction businessman developed life-threatening complications after undergoing a colon polypectomy, prompting the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission-I, Hyderabad, to hold a private hospital, its founder-chairman, and a consultant gastroenterologist guilty of medical negligence. The Commission ordered them to jointly pay ₹6.6 lakh as compensation, along with ₹50,000 towards legal expenses. In 2022, the 49-year-old patient visited a Hyderabad hospital with digestive complaints. Following diagnostic tests, he was diagnosed with a colonic polyp and advised to undergo a colonoscopy and polypectomy under general anaesthesia.
The complainant alleged that the doctor who performed the surgery did not examine him beforehand or review his medical history. Though discharged the same day, the patient soon experienced severe abdominal pain, vomiting, and fever. Upon…
