Consumer court orders hospital, doctors to pay compensation for anaesthesia error

The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (DCDRC), Amritsar recently directed the super-speciality hospital based in 2 cities and 3 treating doctors to refund Rs 7.5 lakh to a woman, whose husband went into a coma while undergoing knee replacement surgery and later died.

It was observed by the Commission that the treating facilities and its doctors did not take proper precautions due to which the patient went into a coma and the complainant had to seek treatment for her husband from a Neuro Hospital by spending around Rs 7,50,000.