Death Due To Negligence

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

The death of three students in Delhi last week - they drowned after the basement of a tuition centre in the city's Rajendra Nagar area was flooded - is due to "negligence", Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said Monday.

The massive fire at a gaming zone in Rajkot that resulted in the death of 27 was caused due to the management's negligence, the investigation has revealed.

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 fire that swept through a crowded wedding hall in a northern Iraqi town killing more than 100 people was blamed on "gross negligence" and lack of safety measures, the results of a government investigation into the disaster said.

Odisha Health and Family Welfare Minister NK Das sought a report from the Keonjhar district administration on the death of 13 children in a span of 18 days due to alleged negligence at a state run hospital.

India recorded 1.20 lakh cases of "deaths due to negligence relating to road accidents" in 2020 -- 328 people losing their lives every day on an average -- despite COVID-19 lockdowns, according to government data.

Supreme Court said that courts cannot presume that all deaths due to COVID-19 in the 2nd wave were due to negligence as it refused to entertain a plea seeking compensation for the kin of the victims by treating it as medical negligence.

Angry over the death of a Covid patient allegedly due to medical negligence, his family vandalised state-run Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on Sunday, forcing the hospital staff to run for safety, hospital sources said.

Two days after a 73-year-old COVID-19 patient died allegedly due to delay in admitting him in a private hospital in Ahmedabad and putting him on ventilator, the civic body on Sunday issued a show-cause notice for the "grave negligence".

The NHRC has issued notices to the Delhi government and the Union home secretary over a complaint alleging negligence in treatment of a city police constable who eventually died due to coronavirus.

The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) sent a notice to Delhi Police in connection with the death of an 80-year-old woman due to extremely poor health, who is allegedly the mother of a police department official and was rescued from outside her own house in Paharganj by the Commission on December 30 last year.

A mob vandalised a private nursing home in West Bengal's Malda district following the death of a one-month-old girl due to alleged medical negligence, police said on Thursday.

An Indian expat in the UAE has been awarded a compensation of Rs 39 lakh by a court in Sharjah for his wife's death due to medical negligence, a media report said.

An infant undergoing treatment at a government hospital was burnt to death allegedly due to the negligence of the hospital staff, leading to a public outcry.

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

The death of three students in Delhi last week - they drowned after the basement of a tuition centre in the city's Rajendra Nagar area was flooded - is due to "negligence", Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said Monday.

The massive fire at a gaming zone in Rajkot that resulted in the death of 27 was caused due to the management's negligence, the investigation has revealed.

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 fire that swept through a crowded wedding hall in a northern Iraqi town killing more than 100 people was blamed on "gross negligence" and lack of safety measures, the results of a government investigation into the disaster said.

Odisha Health and Family Welfare Minister NK Das sought a report from the Keonjhar district administration on the death of 13 children in a span of 18 days due to alleged negligence at a state run hospital.

India recorded 1.20 lakh cases of "deaths due to negligence relating to road accidents" in 2020 -- 328 people losing their lives every day on an average -- despite COVID-19 lockdowns, according to government data.

Supreme Court said that courts cannot presume that all deaths due to COVID-19 in the 2nd wave were due to negligence as it refused to entertain a plea seeking compensation for the kin of the victims by treating it as medical negligence.

Angry over the death of a Covid patient allegedly due to medical negligence, his family vandalised state-run Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on Sunday, forcing the hospital staff to run for safety, hospital sources said.

Two days after a 73-year-old COVID-19 patient died allegedly due to delay in admitting him in a private hospital in Ahmedabad and putting him on ventilator, the civic body on Sunday issued a show-cause notice for the "grave negligence".

The NHRC has issued notices to the Delhi government and the Union home secretary over a complaint alleging negligence in treatment of a city police constable who eventually died due to coronavirus.

The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) sent a notice to Delhi Police in connection with the death of an 80-year-old woman due to extremely poor health, who is allegedly the mother of a police department official and was rescued from outside her own house in Paharganj by the Commission on December 30 last year.

A mob vandalised a private nursing home in West Bengal's Malda district following the death of a one-month-old girl due to alleged medical negligence, police said on Thursday.

An Indian expat in the UAE has been awarded a compensation of Rs 39 lakh by a court in Sharjah for his wife's death due to medical negligence, a media report said.

An infant undergoing treatment at a government hospital was burnt to death allegedly due to the negligence of the hospital staff, leading to a public outcry.