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APEX COURT ORDERS FOR COMPENSATION ON CG EMPLOYEE’S WIFE’S DEATH
IN CGHS HOSPITAL
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The
Union government has
been ordered by the country’s apex consumer panel to pay Rs 5 lakh as
compensation to one of his employees, whose wife had died of excess bleeding
in a CGHS hospital soon after giving birth to a child through cesarean section over 13
years ago.
The
National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) ordered the government to pay the compensation, as the
woman died of excess bleeding after surgery with no blood available in blood
bank of the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) maternity hospital.
The government ordered compensation for the
victim’s husband Arvind Pandey holding the union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the CGHS director general,
the hospital and its doctor who performed the surgery, jointly liable for
damages. The NCDRC held the doctor concerned, Dr Saran and the CGHS maternity hospital at R K Puram liable to pay damages
saying they “failed to exercise due care on their part” leading to the death
of Pandey’s wife. “The concerned doctor and the hospital had failed to
anticipate problems arising out of the complications and to take
precautionary measures, such as arranging for the blood or keeping an
ambulance ready for shifting the patient,” the NCDRC bench presided by
Justice R C Jain said.
The NCDRC’s verdict came on Pandey’s
complaint alleging his wife had died right after the delivery through
cesarean section due to negligence of the CGHS maternity hospital and the doctors who were present
during the surgery. The CGHS hospital and the doctors had contended in their
defence that the best possible treatment was given to Pandey’s wife, who was
a high-risk patient, and that he was informed before hand to arrange blood or
blood donors.
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