Doctor Negligence

The Supreme Court on Friday said a doctor can be held liable for negligence only when there was no requisite qualification and skill, or a failure to exercise reasonable expertise during treatment.

Since her appointment, Tina Dabi has been in action mode - she is sometimes seen sweeping roads as part of a cleanliness campaign initiated by her and sometimes reprimanding doctors who were found to be negligent during hospital inspections.

A 33-year-old Rajasthan bureaucrat died last night due to negligence by doctors, her relatives have alleged.

Anish Kailash Chauhan, a staffer at St. George Hospital in Mumbai, died after reportedly waiting nearly three hours for medical attention.

The Rajasthan government on Thursday suspended three resident doctors of a government hospital here over negligence after a pregnant woman was denied admission and had to deliver the child near the hospital's gate, officials said.

The NCDRC was hearing a complaint regarding negligence on the part of the hospital and the two doctors in providing post-operative care to a patient after a spinal surgery in April 2015.

The Delhi State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission recently held Sir Gangaram Hospital and its five doctors guilty of negligence and directed them to pay damages to the kin of the patient.

Seven years after the death of a 29-year-old man at a private hospital in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur city, four senior doctors were arrested for alleged negligence, police said on Saturday.

The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed an amendment to the Bharatiya Nyaya (second) Sanhita Bill that seeks to reduce the prison term in case of death due to a negligent act of a medical practitioner not amounting to culpable homicide to two years.

A man, whose newborn child was among the 31 patients who died at a government hospital in Maharashtra's Nanded in 48 hours, has blamed negligence by doctors for his loss.

In a shocking incident of negligence and insensitivity from Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri, a 17-year-old girl died after a doctor at a private hospital allegedly gave her the wrong injection.

A doctor couple running a private clinic in in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia were on Sunday arrested for alleged medical negligence leading to the death of a pregnant woman and her child during delivery, the police said.

An investigation by the Kerala police has found that forceps were accidentally left inside the stomach of a woman after surgery due to alleged medical negligence by the doctors of a government medical college here.

A panel of senior doctors and forensic team will probe allegations of medical negligence against a government hospital here after a 23-year-old died in treatment, officials said.

A student of National Institute for Locomotor Disabilities (NILD) at Baranagar near here was found lying unconscious in his hostel room by batch mates and rushed to a hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival.

The Supreme Court on Friday said a doctor can be held liable for negligence only when there was no requisite qualification and skill, or a failure to exercise reasonable expertise during treatment.

Since her appointment, Tina Dabi has been in action mode - she is sometimes seen sweeping roads as part of a cleanliness campaign initiated by her and sometimes reprimanding doctors who were found to be negligent during hospital inspections.

A 33-year-old Rajasthan bureaucrat died last night due to negligence by doctors, her relatives have alleged.

Anish Kailash Chauhan, a staffer at St. George Hospital in Mumbai, died after reportedly waiting nearly three hours for medical attention.

The Rajasthan government on Thursday suspended three resident doctors of a government hospital here over negligence after a pregnant woman was denied admission and had to deliver the child near the hospital's gate, officials said.

The NCDRC was hearing a complaint regarding negligence on the part of the hospital and the two doctors in providing post-operative care to a patient after a spinal surgery in April 2015.

The Delhi State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission recently held Sir Gangaram Hospital and its five doctors guilty of negligence and directed them to pay damages to the kin of the patient.

Seven years after the death of a 29-year-old man at a private hospital in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur city, four senior doctors were arrested for alleged negligence, police said on Saturday.

The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed an amendment to the Bharatiya Nyaya (second) Sanhita Bill that seeks to reduce the prison term in case of death due to a negligent act of a medical practitioner not amounting to culpable homicide to two years.

A man, whose newborn child was among the 31 patients who died at a government hospital in Maharashtra's Nanded in 48 hours, has blamed negligence by doctors for his loss.

In a shocking incident of negligence and insensitivity from Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri, a 17-year-old girl died after a doctor at a private hospital allegedly gave her the wrong injection.

A doctor couple running a private clinic in in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia were on Sunday arrested for alleged medical negligence leading to the death of a pregnant woman and her child during delivery, the police said.

An investigation by the Kerala police has found that forceps were accidentally left inside the stomach of a woman after surgery due to alleged medical negligence by the doctors of a government medical college here.

A panel of senior doctors and forensic team will probe allegations of medical negligence against a government hospital here after a 23-year-old died in treatment, officials said.

A student of National Institute for Locomotor Disabilities (NILD) at Baranagar near here was found lying unconscious in his hostel room by batch mates and rushed to a hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival.