Highlighting that medicines had been prescribed “blindly without ruling out complications”, a District Consumer Commission in Delhi directed a nursing home in Central Delhi’s Daryaganj to pay Rs 20 lakh to a 40-year-old woman who lost her ability to conceive and endured loss of her fallopian tube due to medical negligence of a doctor.
“OP1 (doctor) failed to investigate the problem of the complainant with due diligence despite her known pregnancy and high-risk patient history and prescribed medicines blindly without ruling out complications…such a casual approach in a high-risk pregnancy amounts to negligence,” the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (Central) said in its order dated December 18.