In a unique case, the doctor who underwent a cataract surgery in 1998 won against medical negligence and fabrication of evidence that compromised her career for life. In Delhi, the State Consumer Commission found a doctor and a hospital guilty of misconducting an eye surgery that damaged the victim doctor’s eye along with fabrication and concealment of documents. During the investigation, the consumer commission concluded that both the doctor and the hospital fudged medical records relating to the case to escape liability.
The victimised doctor had alleged that the hospital forged her husband's signature to claim he had given consent before the surgery. Moreover, the commission was surprised that, previously an in-house inquiry by Delhi government's Health Department gave the doctor and the hospital a clean chit even while admitting in the report that it did not have access to details…
