AIIMS asked to pay Rs1 lakh for negligent eye treatment
New Delhi, June 19
The AIIMS has been directed to pay Rs 1 lakh by a consumer forum here to the parents of a girl child for alleged negligence in carrying out transplantation of cornea in her eye.
A Bench of the South Delhi District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum presided over by Justice NK Goel asked the hospital to pay the money to the parents of Haryana resident Baby Priyanka, noting that three corneal graftings (surgery for cornea transplantation) in her left eye failed consecutively as they were done “without proper care and caution”.
“The three consecutive failures of corneal grafting in the left eye of the patient by AIIMS doctors establishes that corneal grafting was not done with proper care and caution as was expected from medical experts and the failure was certainly the result of negligence on the part of doctors in doing the corneal grafting,” the forum said.
“Therefore, we hold the opposite parties (AIIMS and its doctors) guilty of deficiency in service,” it said, directing the AIIMS to pay Rs 1 lakh as compensation to the victim’s parents. —PTI
