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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

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