If a person faces any medical negligence, the family registers a complaint with Delhi police and takes up the matter to Union Health Ministry
A premature twin baby who was declared dead by Max hospital in Shalimar Bagh passed away on Wednesday, raising a series of questions over our existing legal system. Till now, if a person faces any medical negligence, the family registers a complaint with Delhi police and takes up the matter to Union Health Ministry. After fighting for years, only some of them manages to get some justice.
“We need some stringent laws that can set an example for such medical negligence cases. If we look at the present laws, there are still some areas which needs to be discovered properly,” said NP Kaushik, Member (Judicial), Delhi State Commission
“I alone see at least 2-3 cases against private health centers every month and we at state commission get cases above Rs 20,00,000 compensation so I am sure there are much more in the district forums,” he added.
The most common negligence cases involve baby deliveries or needles left in the abdomen.
“It is important that the MCI becomes more strict in granting registration to medical practitioners and accreditation to private medical colleges. Any person can run a clinic these days. Also, for every such case, we seek an expert medical opinion from a government-run hospital, and we have noticed that a lot of times these opinions are a little biased or in favour of questioning doctors/organisations, there should be a non-biased committee,” he added.
PLAINTS GALORE
- The State Commission has received 68 complaints against hospitals between 01/01/2015 and 22/11/2017. These are mostly medical negligence related cases from private hospitals/nursing homes.
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