New Delhi: A girl based mostly in Bengaluru has been awarded a compensation of Rs 5 lakh rupees after a 3.2-centimetre surgical needle was left in her physique following her surgical procedure at a non-public hospital right here almost 20 years in the past.
The Karnataka State Shopper Disputes Redressal Fee has ordered the hospital and two docs to pay Padmavathi, a resident of Jayanagar, with Rs 50,000 to cowl litigation bills.
The Karnataka State Shopper Disputes Redressal Fee has additional directed New India Assurance Co Ltd, which offered a coverage masking hospital bills, to compensate her with Rs 5 lakh for the “skilled and medical negligence” incurred, PTI reported.
In September 29, 2004, the surgical procedure occurred at Deepak Hospital, the place the 2 docs allegedly performed a hernia operation and in addition eliminated her appendix, as said within the Fee’s latest order.
The following day, she complained of extreme ache for which she was given painkillers which had been prescribed to her after surgical procedure. She endured acute abdomen and again ache for a number of years and was admitted to the identical hospital twice subsequently, in keeping with the order.
Padmavathi later approached one other non-public hospital for therapy in 2010. t was observed that some international physique existed within the stomach and again portion of her physique and it was prompt to her to get it (surgical needle) eliminated. She then underwent surgical procedure and the three.2 cm surgical needle was eliminated following which she approached the patron discussion board with a criticism the next yr.
