Docs found guilty, to cough up Rs 5.5L
New Delhi, Sept 12: Holding two Andhra Pradesh doctors guilty of causing death of a pregnant woman due to medical negligence, the country’s apex consumer commission has asked them to pay a compensatio
Man’s intestine cut in botched tummy tuck
The Punjagutta police on Saturday booked a case for negligence against Aakruthi Cosmetic Surgery Centre on allegations that a tummy tuck, a routine liposuction procedure, had led to a serious infectio
Dentist faults forum’s order
Patient T. Anitha, whose teeth are now disfigured for life due to negligence on the part of Sravani Super Specialty Dental Hospital, said, “Root canal treatment was done unnecessarily. I spent at lea
Hospital fined Rs 5 lakh for disfiguring teeth
The State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has ordered a dental hospital in the city to pay Rs 5 lakh as compensation to a patient for disfiguring her teeth.
Overturning the decision of a distr
City hospital sued after woman’s death
A young woman died at a hospital in Moulali here on Friday evening after complications arose following medical termination of her pregnancy. Tests had earlier confirmed that the victim’s one-and-half-
Nimhans told to pay Rs 1L compensation
He had gone to the prestigious Nimhans to get operated on his spinal disc. But during the operation, his food pipe was ruptured, forcing him to depend on liquid diet even two years after the surgical
Docs blamed for boy’s death
Parents of a 10-year-old child, who died at Niloufer Hospital early on Thursday, lodged a complaint with the Nampally police alleging negligence by the hospital authorities. While the police is awaiti
Man put under needless Care
After a patient was cured with a few tablets, instead of a brain surgery as had been suggested by doctors, his family lodged a complaint with the AP Medical Council against a neuro-physician and radio