Ahmedabad: A patient goes under a knife to get an attachment removed after the sonography report diagnose the problem but the doctor does not remove the organ because he doesn’t find it inflamed and causes a problem! This happened to a Mehsana patient whose family sued a doctor for medical negligence.
Interestingly, while the court cleared the doctor the accusation of medical negligence that said he acted on his interest, the doctor had been asked to cough compensation of Rs 25,000 concerning Humanity Reasons.
This case involved Baldevbhai Raval from Titode Village in Mehsana who suffered severe stomach pain and consulted a doctor in the city of Gozaria.
He suggested sonography and on Perusal Reports, Local Surgeon Dr.
Bhargav Patel performed an operation on Raval in March 2012 for appendicitis.
Raval charged Rs 20,000 for surgery.
After surgery, when the patient’s relatives asked about the deleted attachments, they were told that the patient did not suffer from the attitment of the attachment and therefore was not removed.
MIGK to place their patients under unreasonable surgery, rawal families sued doctors, hospitals and laboratories with consumer disputes and the Redressal Commission, Mehsana was on the wrong operation.
In 2014, Dr.
Patel was ordered to replace the part of the surgical expenses and pay compensation for Rs 1 Lakh to the patient.
The doctor challenged the command of compensation before the dispute over the Gujarat Negeri Consumer Recovery Commission and explained how the diagnosis in these cases could not be 100% correct about when operations were needed.
Dr.
Patel also places medical literature that supports that such operation is a normal situation that is acceptable.
He insisted he had acted for the best interest of patients without Malafide intentions.
Even the district consumer commission has noted that it is premature operation and not a medical negligence case.
After hearing the appeal and perusal case papers, justice members at the State Commission, M Mehta, said that doctors felt that the patient’s abdominal pain was caused by inflammation and attachment operations.
The Commission noted that it was not a medical negligence case because Dr.
Patel acted in the interest of the patient and this was not a medical negligence case.
The State Commission modified the command of the District Commission and asked the doctor to pay Rs 25,000 to patients with a 7% interest in humanitarian soil.