Doctor Prem Singh Verma of Chhattisgarh administered an injection to a woman seeking cure to weakness developed after giving birth to
a child. She suffered a reaction due to wrong medicine and died.
Sending a strong message to practitioners of alternative medicine who often resort to allopathy, the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has ordered an ayurvedic doctor to pay Rs2.5 lakh as compensation for causing the death of a woman.
Preetam Lal approached NCDRC for damages alleging his 28-year-old wife, Pramila, died after Chhattisgarh-based doctor Prem Singh Verma gave her an injection in 2002.
Pramila had visited Verma seeking cure to weakness developed after she gave birth to a child. The doctor administered her an injection for a fee of Rs80, but she did not get relief. Instead, she developed severe pain in her leg and sought reexamination.
When Verma did not help, she visited the government district hospital. Doctors there said her condition was a result of a reaction due to wrong medicine. She was later shifted to a private hospital but did not survive.
Following her death, Preetam Lal filed a complaint with the district consumer forum, which directed Verma to pay a compensation of Rs2.5 lakh for medical negligence.
Aggrieved, the doctor moved the state commission, which upheld the district forum’s decision but reduced compensation.
Dissatisfied, Preetam Lal approached NCDRC, which said, “We find that there is enough evidence that the respondent [Verma], who was not a qualified doctor in allopathic medicine, gave the injection to the petitioner’s wife in contravention of the law, because of which she fell ill.”
“The cause of death clearly indicates that the injection given by an unqualified person caused severe reaction, resulting in her death. In these circumstances, the death of the petitioner’s wife is attributable to the wrong injection given by the respondent who in any case was illegally posing himself as a doctor,” NCDRC said.
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