Sarla Devi VS Northern Railway Central Hospital

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A. P. SAHI, BHARATKUMAR PANDYA
Sarla Devi – Appellant
Versus
Northern Railway Central Hospital – Respondent

Counsel for the Parties:
For the Complainant:Mr. Rajinder Singh, Mr. Arjun Sharma, Mr. Gagan Yadav, Mr. Krishan Gopal, Advocates
For the Opp. Party Nos.1 and 2:Mr. Vikrant N. Goyal, Mr. Harsh Kumar Singh, Advocates
For the Opp. Party Nos.3 and 5:Mr. (Dr.) Bipin K. Dwivedi, Mr. Balwant Choubay, Mr. Abrar, Mr. Ankit A. Dwivedi, Advocates with Dr. Vijay Hangloo, Opp. Party No.5 in person
For the Opp. Party No.4: Ex-parte vide order dated 03.10.2017
For the Opp. Party No.6: Deleted vide order dated 08.07.2019

ORDER

Bharatkumar Pandya. Member.—The present complaint has been filed by the complainant Sarla Devi against the opposite parties - hospitals and their doctors alleging medical negligence, whereby daughter of the complainant lost her life on account of negligence and deficiency in the treatment.

2. The brief facts of the case, as stated in the complaint, are as under:—

2.1 Ms. Monika Singh, D/o the complainant was taken to OP-1 Railway hospital in the intervening night of 21.07.2015 (12 AM) with complaint of severe abdominal pain and vomiting since 5 PM. She was immediately examined by the casualty medical officer on duty and presumably on the basis of earlier Ultra Sound (USD) report dated 14.05.2015 shown by her relatives, patient was given few injections and after recommending few tests, complainant was asked to get her examined in Surgical OPD on tentative diagnosis to be that of Appendicitis. In the morning of 22.07.2015 at around 9.45 AM, the patient was again brought to Surgical OPD and was examined by the doctors. After examining, the doctor asked the brother of the patient to take her home but as she was not well and was still in pain, her relatives requested the doctors