NEW DELHI: The national consumer commission, NCDRC, has ordered Delhi’s Moolchand Hospital and a senior gynaecologist to pay Rs 1 crore compensation to the daughter of a woman in a medical negligence case. The victim, Rupa Dutta, died on October 9, 2003 after Dr Raj Bokaria conducted the procedure for medical termination of pregnancy when she was 26 weeks pregnant.
Passing the order on August 18, the two-member bench of NCDRC, Dr SM Kantikar and Dinesh Singh, recorded that medical negligence is “conclusively attributable” to the hospital and Dr Bokaria. The patient, during her second pregnancy, was under ante-natal care (ANC) of Dr Bokaria, a gynaecologist at the hospital.
