Supreme Court of India
Ashish Kumar Mazumdar v. Aishi Ram Batra Charitable Hospital Trust & Ors.
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We are of the view that the three broad heads considered by the Division Bench for awatd of damages are sufficiently representative of the claim of the plaintiff.
Judgment, page 11
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Medical Negligence - Principle of res ipsa /oquitur - Applicability of - Plaintiff admitted as indoor patient in the Hospital and suffering with high fever and in delirious state - Found lying below the window of his hospital room with multiple fractures and despite treatment became a paraplegic i.e. 100% disabled below the waist - Suit for damages on the ground that absence of due and reasonable care on the part of the hospital authorities led to the incident disabling the plaintiff for rest of his life .:... Courts b.elow applied the principle of res ipsa loquitur to cast the burden of
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