Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1378 · Decided 16 December 2019
Maharaja Agrasen Hospital & ORS. v. Master Rishabh Sharma & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1378 · [2019] 16 S.C.R. 1185
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6619/2016
- Decided
- 16 December 2019
- Bench
- UDAY UMESH LALIT, INDU MALHOTRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Medical Negligence - Respondents Nos. 1 to 3-complainants filed a complaint of medical negligence against appellant No. 1- hospital and appellant Nos. 2 to 4-the Paediatricians and ophthalmologist doctors working with the hospital and respondent No. 4-the Gynaecologist before the National - NCDRC held the appellant no. 1-hospital guilty of medical negligence, since they failed to carry out the mandatory check up of Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) on respondent No. 1, who was a pre-term baby, which led to his total blindness and appellants Nos. 1 to 4 were jointly held
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