JUDGMENT

Ishan Chandra Das, President.—This is an application for compensation filed by the complainant, Molla Sirajul Islam who prayed for compensation of a sum of Rs. 63,25,000/- (Rupees sixty three lakh twenty five thousand) due to medical negligence on the part of the OPs no. 1 to 3 and for other consequential reliefs.

2. Briefly stated, the case of the complainant was that he had been suffering from pain on his back and on his both lower limbs for which he consulted doctors and finally being influenced by the advertisement in the newspaper he came under the treatment of the OP no. 1, Dr. L. N. Tripathi, Director, Medica Institute of Neurological Diseases and Vice Chairman of Medica Super Speciality Hospitals Pvt. Ltd. After certain examination of the complainant, the OP no. 1 advised him for undergoing L5S1 Left Sciatica Microsurgery. On being convinced by the said advice and on assurance of the OP no. 1 that the patient could be relieved from his sufferings of pain by the proposed microsurgery, the complainant got himself admitted on 23-12-2010 at Medica Super Speciality Hospital under the OP no. 1 for undergoing the treatment of microsurgery by the OP no. 1, Dr. L. N. Tripat