B.K. Taimni, Member—Petitioner was the opposite party before the District

Forum where the respondent filed the complaint alleging deficiency in service on the part of the petitioners by not reimbursing the total amount of expenditure incurred relating to the ailment of his wife.

2. Undisputed facts of the case are that the respondent complainant is a retired Government servant and is a beneficiary of the Rajasthan Pensioners Medical Concession Scheme 1981. Sometime in May 1999, his wife faced some neurological disorder wherein she was taken to some local Government hospital in Ajmer, from where she was referred to Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital, Ajmer, (hereinafter referred to as JLN Hospital for short) who in turn referred the patient to SMS Hospital, Jaipur, wherein she was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Neurology Department. At SMS Hospital, Jaipur, she was operated upon for the first time on 31.5.1999 and thereafter on 12.6.1999 and unfortunately she died on 9.9.1999. During the course of the above treatment, the respondent incurred an expenditure of Rs. 76,141.68 on purchase of medicines and when the claim was preferred in this regard with the petitioners, it wa