Medical Negligence Case

Doctors at Government Medical College here have been accused of leaving a cloth in the stomach of a pregnant woman during a caesarean operation in January this year.

The Bombay High Court on Friday suggested that the Maharashtra government consider creating a special cell of well-trained police officers to deal with registering FIRs against doctors over complaints of medical negligence.

A private security guard was found dead outside a hospital in Noida, prompting the police to lodged a complaint of "negligence" against the medical facility on Tuesday, officials said.

Amid controversy over discrepancies in negligence case filed against Covid-19 positive singer Kanika Kapoor, a letter - purportedly written by Chief Medical Officer Of Lucknow - has emerged that seeks correction in the first information report filed on Friday. CMO Narendra Agarwal, however, has refused to comment on the letter, calling it "fake".

A Delhi court has directed the police to register a First Information Report (FIR) against Fortis hospital and its management in a case of medical negligence involving a newborn which allegedly left him disabled.

The state consumer commission in Maharashtra has directed a civic-run hospital in Navi Mumbai and a Chembur-based hospital to pay over Rs 15 lakh compensation to a woman whose husband died nine years ago due to "medical negligence".

A case has been registered against three hospitals in Kerala, including two private hospitals and a state-run hospital in Kottayam, for allegedly causing death of a man, in his early 60s, by negligence.

A team of doctors at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) in Haryana's Rohtak, fear that many patients who underwent cataract surgeries at a government hospital between February 27 and March 11, could lose their sight after "mishandled procedure and incorrect medicines". Thirty-eight patients were moved to the PGIMS after they co...

Two babies died and 32 were hospitalised in a case of medical negligence in Hyderabad after they were wrongly administered with opioid, a medicine not used on babies, at a primary health care centre.

In a shocking case of medical negligence, doctors at a hospital in Hyderabad accidentally left a pair of forceps inside a patient's stomach during surgery. It remained there for the next three months.

Two days after a woman was allegedly infected by HIV due to a faulty medical procedure at a Tamil Nadu hospital, a similar case has now come to light in Chennai. A 27-year-old woman has accused doctors at the prominent Kilpauk Medical College Hospital of criminal negligence, due to which she allegedly contracted the virus during a blood transfusion...

A teenage boy whose HIV-positive blood was passed on to a pregnant woman, in a case of shocking medical negligence that has triggered a major controversy in Tamil Nadu, reportedly tried to kill himself on Thursdayas his family struggled to deal with the fallout.

In a case of alleged medical negligence, a four-month-old baby died at a hospital in Delhi on Friday, after he was given a pain killer injection for temporary relief from a stitch on the baby's upper lip.

A Delhi government panel formed to probe the case of a premature baby, wrongly declared dead by an upscale private hospital, has found the hospital guilty of not following prescribed medical norms in dealing with newborn infants.

The widow and children of a man who went to a rural Hawaii health center with a sore throat in 2013 and ended up dead will receive a $4.2 million settlement from the federal government, the widow's lawyer said Wednesday.

Doctors at Government Medical College here have been accused of leaving a cloth in the stomach of a pregnant woman during a caesarean operation in January this year.

The Bombay High Court on Friday suggested that the Maharashtra government consider creating a special cell of well-trained police officers to deal with registering FIRs against doctors over complaints of medical negligence.

A private security guard was found dead outside a hospital in Noida, prompting the police to lodged a complaint of "negligence" against the medical facility on Tuesday, officials said.

Amid controversy over discrepancies in negligence case filed against Covid-19 positive singer Kanika Kapoor, a letter - purportedly written by Chief Medical Officer Of Lucknow - has emerged that seeks correction in the first information report filed on Friday. CMO Narendra Agarwal, however, has refused to comment on the letter, calling it "fake".

A Delhi court has directed the police to register a First Information Report (FIR) against Fortis hospital and its management in a case of medical negligence involving a newborn which allegedly left him disabled.

The state consumer commission in Maharashtra has directed a civic-run hospital in Navi Mumbai and a Chembur-based hospital to pay over Rs 15 lakh compensation to a woman whose husband died nine years ago due to "medical negligence".

A case has been registered against three hospitals in Kerala, including two private hospitals and a state-run hospital in Kottayam, for allegedly causing death of a man, in his early 60s, by negligence.

A team of doctors at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) in Haryana's Rohtak, fear that many patients who underwent cataract surgeries at a government hospital between February 27 and March 11, could lose their sight after "mishandled procedure and incorrect medicines". Thirty-eight patients were moved to the PGIMS after they co...

Two babies died and 32 were hospitalised in a case of medical negligence in Hyderabad after they were wrongly administered with opioid, a medicine not used on babies, at a primary health care centre.

In a shocking case of medical negligence, doctors at a hospital in Hyderabad accidentally left a pair of forceps inside a patient's stomach during surgery. It remained there for the next three months.

Two days after a woman was allegedly infected by HIV due to a faulty medical procedure at a Tamil Nadu hospital, a similar case has now come to light in Chennai. A 27-year-old woman has accused doctors at the prominent Kilpauk Medical College Hospital of criminal negligence, due to which she allegedly contracted the virus during a blood transfusion...

A teenage boy whose HIV-positive blood was passed on to a pregnant woman, in a case of shocking medical negligence that has triggered a major controversy in Tamil Nadu, reportedly tried to kill himself on Thursdayas his family struggled to deal with the fallout.

In a case of alleged medical negligence, a four-month-old baby died at a hospital in Delhi on Friday, after he was given a pain killer injection for temporary relief from a stitch on the baby's upper lip.

A Delhi government panel formed to probe the case of a premature baby, wrongly declared dead by an upscale private hospital, has found the hospital guilty of not following prescribed medical norms in dealing with newborn infants.

The widow and children of a man who went to a rural Hawaii health center with a sore throat in 2013 and ended up dead will receive a $4.2 million settlement from the federal government, the widow's lawyer said Wednesday.