A mother’s fight for justice after her 19-year-old daughter’s death due to shoddy dengue treatment has culminated in accountability, with the State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Chandigarh, holding a private hospital and three of its doctors guilty of medical negligence, and awarding ₹45 lakh as compensation.
The commission identified multiple lapses in treatment at the private hospital, including delay in conducting dengue tests despite medical advice. (Shutterstock)
Setting aside an earlier order that had dismissed the complaint, the commission directed Ivy Hospital, Sector 71, Mohali, and its doctors to compensate the bereaved mother for the loss of her daughter, Gurpreet Kaur, a first-year BCom student at the Sector 50 government college.
The hospital and Dr Gurpreet Singh Babra have been directed to pay ₹10 lakh each, while Dr Chetan Goel and Dr Rajiv Dhunna have been ordered to pay ₹12.5 lakh each.
Gurpreet, who had scored 91.2% in Class 12 (commerce) and aspired to become an IAS officer, died on December 22, 2021, leaving behind her parents and two younger siblings.
Her mother, Kavita, had alleged that a series of medical lapses at Ivy Hospital led to her untimely death. The appeal was argued by advocate Deepak Aggarwal.