Consumer Rights

Issues dealing with consumer rights

Consumer Rights RSS Feed
 
 
 
 

Archive for Hospital

Man gets Rs. 11 lakh as compensation from hospital for negligence (which led to him getting crippled for life)

When a man gets admitted to hospital, the expectation is that he will get better, and that the hospital will take the best possible care to ensure that the person gets the best possible service. This includes getting proper medical attention, being attended to by nursing staff, and also to ensure that the person does [...]

Apollo fined Rs. 5 lakh over a man’s death

Apollo Hospitals is one of the providers of premium medical care, charging top rates for their services and in turn providing excellent medical services. This is an expectation that people have when they are admitted to the hospital, so when the hospital screws up somewhere in this care and does harm to the patient, there [...]

Supreme Court awards Rs. 1 crore damages for medical negligence

Medical negligence is something that is penalized the world over. When a patient goes in for a medical procedure, the person is entrusting their lives to the doctor (s) attending on them. It used to be said earlier that a Doctor is a very respected person, and that it would be unfair to penalize a [...]

Passenger paid compensation for freak accident while reaching the terminal

This would almost certainly be classified as a freak accident, but it happened and somebody needed to be held responsible. What happened ? Well, a flier, not anticipating any problems or mishap during a regular flight safely made it off the airplane, but suffered an accident from the bus that takes the passengers to the [...]

Hospital fined for improper diagnosis

Modern medical care can be very expensive. We have managed to push the boundaries of medical care much further in the recent years, and are able to diagnose diseases much better than just a couple of decades ago. As a part of this, we have much better equipment, much better diagnostic techniques, and a much [...]



Categories

Recent Posts

Tags

Meta

Bad Behavior has blocked 4057 access attempts in the last 7 days.