Vinay Kumar, Member—The Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research Centre (for short, the ‘Cancer Institute’) has filed this appeal challenging the award of Delhi State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission in complaint Case No.C-108/2001. The State Commission has allowed the complaint and awarded a lump sum compensation of Rs.5 lakhs in favour of the Complainant.

2. The matter relates to the treatment of Mrs. Krishna Kumari, wife of the complainant, for cancer of the cervix. The disease was diagnosed in August 1999 and the patient succumbed to it in February, 2001. The complaint petition filed on 20.4.2001, traverses the events and developments between the surgery at OP-1 on 22.10.1999 and the patent’s death on 6.2.2001.The case of the complainant was that his wife underwent radiation therapy at PGI MS Rohtak during August-September 1999. It was followed by RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY at OP-1/ Cancer Institute on 22.10.1999. As per the complaint petition, OP-3 decided to rush through this without proper tests. Also, there was negligence and deficiency in the manner this operation was performed, as a result of which metastasis developed within a period of ten months. Allegedly, the int