NCDRC directs Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, doctor to pay Rs 65 lakh to patient
NCDRC directs Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, doctor to pay Rs 65 lakh to patient
NEW DELHI: The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has directed the Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in Okhla Road here and one of its doctors to pay Rs 65 lakh to a patient who suffered a permanent brain injury during an angioplasty procedure in 2011.
The patient is in a vegetative state currently.
The commission, comprising its presiding member Justice Ram Surat Ram Maurya and member Bharat Kumar Pandya, was hearing a complaint filed by a woman claiming compensation for medical negligence and injury caused to her husband during angioplasty in May 2011.
