A consumer forum in Madhya Pradesh has ordered a hospital to pay Rs.12.5 lakh in damages for negligence in the death of a former judge's wife

A former judge's wife recently passed away as the result of medical negligence at Birla Institute of Medical Research (BIMR) Hospital, according to the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum in Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh.

It was decided by a bench of Gaurishankar Dubey, Rajeev Krishna Sharma, and Anju Gupta that BIMR Hospital should pay a total of 11.77 million along with 9% interest per year as well as 50,000 for mental agony and 10,000 in litigation costs to the hospital.

In a complaint filed through Advocate Anchit Jain, a retired district judge and supervisor of the DCDRC Gwalior, a complaint was filed against BIMR Hospital. The complaint was filed when the jewels of the wife were found missing from the body after she passed away due to Covid-19. CCTV footage and treatment papers were demanded from the hospital, however, only treatment paper was provided to him.

Further, it was submitted that no RT-PCR test was done on the client and the patient was diagnosed only based on the High-Resolution Computed Tomography scan. Even though the medicines given were not prescribed by the doctors and still bill for 8 remdesivir injections was raised, against the government’s guidelines for 6 injections per person.

It was thus due to the negligence of the hospital that resulted in the death of the patient after the Commission noted the aforementioned deficiencies in the hospital's conduct. 

As a result of a team of three doctors headed by the Chief Medical Health Officer (CMHO) preparing a report on the case, it was necessary to create a separate committee for the case. When it came to deciding what compensation the complainant should receive, the Commission referred to several Supreme Court judgments.