Apollo Hospitals and five doctors working there were directed to pay ₹15 lakh compensation for medical negligence after a 53-year-old patient slipped into coma and died.
The Telangana State Consumer Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission bench comprising president M.S.K. Jaiswal and member Meena Ramanathan was dealing with a complaint filed by the victim’s family - E. Shantha Kumari, M.E. Sowmya and M.E. Tarun. The opposite parties were Apollo Hospitals and doctors working there.
The complainants stated that the victim, M.R. Easwaran, was called for colonoscopy on September 20, 2012. He had to wait for three hours before the test was done. A few minutes after taking him into the room, anxious nurses rushed out to get an oxygen cylinder. The patient slipped into a coma, was on ventilator for 116 days, and died on January 14, 2013.
