{"id":31469,"date":"2013-12-31T11:38:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T06:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=31469"},"modified":"2013-12-31T11:38:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T06:08:44","slug":"doctor-fined-rs-4-lakh-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/doctor-fined-rs-4-lakh-negligence","title":{"rendered":"Doctor fined Rs.4 lakh for negligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/doctor-fined-rs-4-lakh-negligence\/ff-9\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31470\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"31470\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/doctor-fined-rs-4-lakh-negligence\/ff-9\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/ff6.jpg?fit=272%2C153&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"272,153\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ff\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/ff6.jpg?fit=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/ff6.jpg?fit=272%2C153&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31470 alignright\" alt=\"ff\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ff6-150x84.jpg?resize=150%2C84&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/ff6.jpg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/ff6.jpg?w=272&amp;ssl=1 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has held a doctor guilty of medical negligence and directed him to pay Rs. 4 lakh to a man who lost his hand.<\/p>\n<p><b>Order challenged<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Commission was hearing a revision petition filed by a Bihar resident, Jai Prakash Mehta, challenging an order of the Bihar State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, which dismissed his plea for compensation.<\/p>\n<p><b>Order set aside<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The NCDRC president D.K. Jain and members Vineeta Rai and Vinay Kumar last week set aside the order of the Bihar State Commission saying that it had erroneously concluded that there was no medical negligence.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mehta sustained serious burn injuries on his right arm after he got an electric shock while working on a railway line as a contract labourer on June 26, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>He was under medical treatment from an ENT (ear, nose and throat) specialist Dr. B.N. Rai in Rohtas in Bihar for over two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><b>Irreversible gangrene<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Later, Mr. Jai Prakash Mehta, was referred to the Institute of Medical Sciences and S.S. Hospital, Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi.<\/p>\n<p>Here, he was informed that gangrene had set in, which could not be reversed and his arm had to be amputated.<\/p>\n<p>The NCDRC held Dr. Rai guilty of medical negligence.<\/p>\n<p>It observed that the doctor being an ENT specialist did not prima facie possess the medical skills to treat a serious burn injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe [Dr. Rai] did not adopt the practice in respect of diagnosis and treatment in the case, which would be adopted by a doctor of ordinary skill in accordance with at least one of the responsible bodies of opinion of professional practitioners in the field since he gave only first aid treatment, which was totally inadequate and ineffective for injuries caused by serious burns,\u201d the National Commission said in the order.<\/p>\n<p>(Source\u2014IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has held a doctor guilty of medical negligence and directed him to pay Rs. 4 lakh to a man who lost his hand. Order challenged The Commission was hearing a revision petition filed by a Bihar resident, Jai Prakash Mehta, challenging an order of the Bihar State Consumer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":31470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[27380,10318,27379,47765,19056,47774,47775,23371],"class_list":["post-31469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-doctor-fined-rs-4-lakh-for-negligence","tag-ncdrc","tag-ncdrc-president-d-k-jain","tag-news","tag-the-national-consumer-disputes-redressal-commission","tag-todays-news","tag-todays-top-news","tag-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Doctor fined Rs.4 lakh for negligence<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Doctor fined Rs.4 lakh for negligence\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/doctor-fined-rs-4-lakh-negligence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Doctor fined Rs.4 lakh for negligence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Doctor fined Rs.4 lakh for negligence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/doctor-fined-rs-4-lakh-negligence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LegalindiaCom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-12-31T06:08:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-12-31T06:08:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/ff6.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"272\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"153\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Legal India Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Legal India Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/doctor-fined-rs-4-lakh-negligence#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/doctor-fined-rs-4-lakh-negligence\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Legal India Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5bed6309aad9141bf373167e6730d0fc\"},\"headline\":\"Doctor fined Rs.4 lakh for negligence\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-12-31T06:08:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-12-31T06:08:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/doctor-fined-rs-4-lakh-negligence\"},\"wordCount\":311,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/doctor-fined-rs-4-lakh-negligence#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2013\\\/12\\\/ff6.jpg?fit=272%2C153&ssl=1\",\"keywords\":[\"Doctor fined Rs.4 lakh for negligence\",\"NCDRC\",\"NCDRC president D.K. 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