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Safdarjung hospital fined for woman’s death

New Delhi: Delhi’s Safdarjung hospital has been asked by the National Consumer Commission to pay Rs.2 lakh as compensation to the kin of a woman, who died due to inordinate delay in her treatment five years ago.

Holding the capital’s premier medical facility guilty of “medical negligence”, the Commission presided by Justice M B Shah dismissed its plea against the lower consumer fora order and directed it to pay the sum within a month to the victim’s husband and three children.

On November four, 2002, Fakir Chand had taken his wife in an unconscious state with symptoms of brain hemorrhage to Safdarjung hospital, but was shocked to see the attitude of the doctors and staff who did not attend to her for five hours, the complaint alleged.

Ironically, even after the doctors declared her condition to be critical necessitating ICU facility and a CT Scan, she was not provided the facility and medication for long, which worsened her health forcing Mr. Chand to hurriedly take her to Apollo Hospital the same night.

However, the patient’s condition was beyond recovery by then and she breathed her last three days later, prompting Mr. Chandto file a consumer case through counsel R Krishnan. - PTI

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