V.K.JAIN
Consumer Education Research Society – Appellant
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Madras Medical Mission – Respondent
V.K. Jain, Presiding Member—Late Dr. S.J.S. Paul, husband of the complainant No.2 and father of complainant No. 3 and 5 and aged about 60 years at the relevant time was diagnosed with High Stenosis. Based upon the angiography report revealing the aforesaid ailment, he consulted opposite party No.2 Dr. Mullasari Ajith, who advised him to undergo CABG surgery. He allegedly told the patient that the aforesaid surgery was a safe procedure with complication rate of less than one percent. Opposite party No.3 Dr. Rajan told him that the aforesaid was a simple procedure and he could resume normal work after two weeks. On 09.7.2007, late Dr. Paul was admitted in Madras Medical Mission Hospital and the prescribed surgery was performed on 11.7.2007. After the surgery, he was shifted to ICU. It is alleged that late Dr. Paul was not connected to Pulse oximeter, which was necessary to monitor the saturation level and the relatives were not allowed to stay with the patient. In the morning of 13.7.2007, complainant No.3, who had been waiting outside the ICU to meet her father, was informed by the Medical Superintendent of the Hospital that her father had respiratory arrest the previous night.
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