Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 668 · Decided 10 May 2019
Nand Kishore Prasad v. DR. Mohib Hamidi & Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 668 · [2019] 7 S.C.R. 1076
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4619/2019
- Decided
- 10 May 2019
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, HEMANT GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Consumer Protection Act
Headnote
Consumer Protection Act, 1986 - Medical Negligence - Vicarious liability of the Hospital vis-a-vis the Operating Surgeon - Appellant's son-patient complained of abdominal pain, fever and haemorrhage in both eyes - Referred by the physician Party No.1 - He was taken to the said Hospital where he was operated upon when the platelets count was 35000 per cubic millimeter (cu.mm) - Since the patient was bleeding, the relatives of the patient took discharge from the Hospital and on the same date admitted him to another
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