New Delhi: A consumer forum has directed a city hospital to pay over Rs 7 lakh to a Delhi Police personnel for wrongly transplanting a pacemaker which was not needed, saying it was "against all medical ethics".
South Delhi District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum bench, presided by Justice NK Goel, asked Rohini-based Saroj Hospital and Heart Institute to pay Rs 7,24,135 to Ravinder Singh Pawar, then Public Relations Officer at the Delhi Police Headquarters.
"We hold that Opposite Party-2 (hospital) had implanted the AICD (automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator) in the complainant without there being a need to do so, only with a view to earn profits.
In its order, the forum asked the hospital to reimburse Rs 5,24,135, spent by Mr Pawar as the medical expense, and also directed it to pay Rs 2 lakh as compensation to him for causing mental agony and harassment and cost of litigation.
An operation was conducted and a permanent pacemaker was installed, citing his serious condition. The hospital charged a bill of Rs 5,24,135, the complaint said.
Thereafter, Mr Pawar approached the forum stating that the hospital had advised him wrongly and implanted the pace-maker by creating panic, which amounted to unfair trade practice, cheating and deficiency.
In its reply, however, the hospital had denied all the allegations levelled against it.
South Delhi District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum bench, presided by Justice NK Goel, asked Rohini-based Saroj Hospital and Heart Institute to pay Rs 7,24,135 to Ravinder Singh Pawar, then Public Relations Officer at the Delhi Police Headquarters.
"We hold that Opposite Party-2 (hospital) had implanted the AICD (automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator) in the complainant without there being a need to do so, only with a view to earn profits.
In its order, the forum asked the hospital to reimburse Rs 5,24,135, spent by Mr Pawar as the medical expense, and also directed it to pay Rs 2 lakh as compensation to him for causing mental agony and harassment and cost of litigation.
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An operation was conducted and a permanent pacemaker was installed, citing his serious condition. The hospital charged a bill of Rs 5,24,135, the complaint said.
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Thereafter, Mr Pawar approached the forum stating that the hospital had advised him wrongly and implanted the pace-maker by creating panic, which amounted to unfair trade practice, cheating and deficiency.
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In its reply, however, the hospital had denied all the allegations levelled against it.
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