The State Consumer Commission has asked Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre to pay Rs 50,000 compensation to a man whose wife died of liver cancer.
NEW DELHI: The State Consumer Commission has asked Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre to pay Rs 50,000 compensation to a man whose wife died of liver cancer which developed due to 'negligent care' at the hospital
where she was recuperating from colon ailments.
Ordering the Cancer Institute to pay the amount in a month, the Delhi State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission headed by Justice JD Kapoor held it guilty of 'negligence' during the post operation period when the deceased developed
liver cancer after undergoing corrective surgeries for colon cancer.
"As is apparent from the (post-operation) discharge summary the condition of liver, ovary, uterus was normal... and it was due to negligence in and after the surgery resulting in development of anastomosis leak indicating that the patient had developed liver cancer," the Commission said while allowing the complaint of one KC Makhijani, husband of the deceased.
The Commission reversed the District Consumer Forum's verdict which had earlier dismissed Makhijani's complaint holding no case of medical negligence was made out against the hospital.
As per Makhijani, a resident of Lajpat Nagar here, he came to know in 2004 that his wife was at an advanced stage of carcinoma of transverse colon and took her to the hospital where she underwent two successive corrective surgeries which were conducted by expert oncologists.
After the discharge, her condition worsened and later, she died of liver cancer which shocked Makhijani as he was told that his wife's liver and other vital organs were free from any ailment.
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