Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 867 · Decided 11 December 2021
M/S Sheth M L Vaduwala Eye Hospital v. Oriental Insurance Company Limited and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 867 · [2021] 12 S.C.R. 116
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7611/2021
- Decided
- 11 December 2021
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, A.S. BOPANNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Consumer Protection: Medical negligence - Liability of Hospital - Appellant a charitable hospital conducted an eye camp and performed cataract surgeries on 112 patients - Patients complained of negligence by use of non-sterilized appliances, contaminated medicines and lenses of an inferior quality resulting in eye infections and loss of vision - State Government appointed a Committee to enquire into the causes which led, inter alia, to several patients having lost their eye-sight
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