Notably, the officer underwent surgery earlier this month at the Vasundhara Hospital in Jodhpur but her condition deteriorated after the surgery and was shifted to Ahmedabad.
In Betul district, Madhya Pradesh, severe medical negligence led to the death of a mother and her newborn. The family accused the district hospital staff of incompetence, prompting a dramatic protest where they carried the infant’s body in a bag.
The accused doctor has been identified as Praveen Tiwari who runs a private nursing home in Varanasi.
Commenting on the incident, Amarnath Jha, the civil surgeon of Khagaria said, "We have initiated an inquiry into the matter and have asked for an explanation from the NGO responsible for the inhuman act."
The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has directed Doctors Sandeep Agarwal and Muffazal Ahmed to pay Rs 20 lakh and Rs 10 lakh, respectively, to Gyan Mishra of Lucknow, who died during pendency of the consumer complaint.
A doctor in Jharkhand prescribed pregnancy test to two young men in Chatra district after they complained of stomach pain. Besides pregnancy test, Mukesh Kumar, a government hospital doctor, also asked Gopal Ganjhu and Kameshwar Janhu to undergo tests for HIV and haemoglobin.
A departmental inquiry has absolved paediatrician Dr Kafeel Khan of the charges of medical negligence, corruption and dereliction of duty on the day more than 60 children died at Gorakhpur's BRD Medical College due to oxygen shortage in August 2017.
The full bench of AHRC consisting of its Chairman Justice T. Vaiphei, held Dr. Ghanashyam Thakuria of Ambari Urban Health Centre, guilty of medical negligence in the death of one Pinky Das and recommended that the doctor should pay the compensation to the family of the deceased within two months' time.
Another case of medical negligence has come to light where the doctor forgot 61-year-old elderly patient inside the MRI machine. The incident happened in MRI and City Scan Center in Panchkula, Haryana.
The police have registered an FIR against the management of Swastik Hospital, following the direction of the CM Window. The CM window is a Haryana government's initiative to address the people's grievances.
The court ordered to share the amount of compensation (200,000 dirhams) between Abraham and his two children, the report said.
Rambhajan Yadav, who is in his early 50s, was admitted at Gaya's Anugrah Narayan Medical College and Hospital two days ago for a hydrocele surgery. But to the shock of his family, the doctors operated upon his leg, which they said was fine.
A consumer court in Maharashtra's Thane district has rejected a professional singer's plea seeking a compensation of Rs 15 lakh from two doctors for alleged deficiency in service.
Faijan, who is a resident of Hanuman Nagar, fell from a mango tree and fractured his left hand. Following this, he went to a hospital where the doctor put a cast on the wrong hand.
The 33-year-old woman had gone to the hospital after experiencing pain in her stomach and underwent an X-Ray, police said.
A two-and-half-month-old baby died yesterday due to a delay in treatment after the door of the ambulance, in which he was brought to a local hospital, failed to open because of a malfunction, alleged the infant's father.
The incident took place when the ambulance, carrying the baby to Raipur's Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar Hospital for cardiac surgery, malfunctioned.
Cases of medical negligence reported in Dehradun and Agra.
The woman, Anjali Bairagi, a resident of Panchavati area in the city, was admitted to Dr Vasantrao Pawar Medical College in Adgaon area in the city on April 17 after she consumed poison
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