A Kerala consumer commission has ordered a Thrissur hospital and one of its doctors to pay over Rs 1 lakh to a woman whose colonoscopy was performed without her consent in 2011, a procedure that ended in a bowel perforation and emergency surgery that nearly cost her her life.
The Thrissur District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission passed its final order on 29 June 2026, more than 14 years after the complaint was first filed, holding Mother Hospital and its gastroenterologist guilty of deficiency in service and medical negligence.
