Hyderabad, May 14th: Negligence of doctors in treating a patient costs Rs I crore to NIMS (Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences). The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered NIMS to pay Rs 1 crore to a software engineer whom its doctors rendered incapitated nearly seventeen years ago. This is the highest fine ever levied on any medical negligence by Supreme Court in the country.
According to the sources a software engineer, Mr. Prashant Dhananya is son of retired BHEL employ, Mr. Sheshadri. Prashant was diagnosed for chest pain at NIMS in 1992. Doctor suggested for a surgery and he was operated for a tumour in his left chest by a cardiac surgeon, Dr. P.V Satyanarayana at NIMS in the same year.
At the stage of recovering from the disease he was again attacked by Mylopathy due to which he was treated as out patient for nearly 317 days at NIMS. With the negligence of doctors in treating him, Prashant became paraplegic, suffering paralysis and other serious complications.
Prashant filed case against the hospital demanding a compensation of Rs 4.60 in the year 1996. National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission awarded him Rs 15 lakh against his demand. He again filed case in Supreme Court and demanded Rs 7 crore. On Thursday the court gave judgment to pay Rs 1 crore to Prashant.
Kakinada, May 14th: East Godavari district administration is taking various measures to beat the scorching heat of summer. As a part of this it has started distribution of pamplets to the public containing information on how to avoid sunstrokes and water borne diseases. People were advised to stay ...
Kakinada, May 14th: As many as 20 people fell ill after drinking tank water at Gorripudi village in Karapa mandal of East Godavari District on Thursday. Seven of them were admitted in Government general hospital of which condition of three of them was critical. It is suspected that some of the unid...
Kakinada, May 14th: The district election authorities have made elaborate arrangements for organizing counting on May 16. The administration has given special attention to vulnerable areas in the district which were already identified. The district went to polls in two phases on April 16 and 23 and...
Kakinada, May 15th: On the occasion of 206th birth anniversary, rich tributes were paid to Sir Arthur Cotton also known as father of irrigation here at local JNTU on Friday. The program was jointly organized by the Institution of Engineers (India) local center and the Retired Irrigation Engineers A...
Kakinada, May 15th: The issue of dredging in Hope Island in the vicinity of Kakinada sea port became issue between the KSPL authorities and the local fisherflock. While the KSPL authorities are arguing that dredging is essential if both deep water and anchorage ports remain open in future, the fish...
Hyderabad, May 15th: APSRTC has decided to come up with low floor buses in Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Vishakapatnam. In a total it is likely to introduce nearly 1500 buses in these three cities. The authorities have taken this decision as these buses are safer since they have no steps, have large sl...
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