ORDER

S.M. Kantikar, Presiding Member

Complaint:

1. The complainant, Mrs. Tanveer Jahan, filed this complaint under section 21 of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 (for short ‘the Act,1986) for the alleged deficiency in service and medical negligence on the part of opposite parties no. 1 to 5, which resulted into injuries and permanent damage to the complainant. The complainant alleged that the present case was a saga of in-despicable devastation inflicted on the complainant and family of the complainant besides the criminal acts of commission and omission of the treating doctors who pushed the patient into the jaws of death.

2. The complainant (for short ‘the patient’) about 35 years of age was suffering from recurring pain in the abdomen for one year in 1997. On 22.04.1998 she got admitted in Surgical Unit II, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) under Dr. S. Chumber the opposite party no. 2 for laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery fixed on 02.05.1998. She was diagnosed as gall bladder stone. On 01.05.1998, one Dr. Chander Mohan, a duty doctor in the unit demanded Rs. 5000/- from the complainant’s husband towards operation. Also, one Dr. Shiv Shankar, a junior resident per