Medical Negligence is the term around which Doctors ad hospital are cornered in different courts but in this recent case the Supreme Court has enumerated the factors to be taken into consideration while establishing the liability of concerned doctor or hospital in cases of medical negligence. A patient was suffering from oesophageal cancer had high fever with high WBC count was admitted to this hospital at Jaipur and was given antibiotic treatment through IV canula but as canula gott blocked then patient was discharged home on an oral antibiotic but at home her condition worsened she was admitted in another hospital with low BP and high rise of count.
Her husband filed a case of negligence saying Doctor could not diagnose septicaemia, discharged the patient on oral medicine, attending doctor and hospital said that then patient discharged was febrile so it was mere negligence. In the…
