Supreme Court of India
Maharaja Agrasen Hospital & Ors. v. Master Rishabh Sharma & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
Accordingly, we allow Civil Appeal No. 9461 of 2019 (Diary No. 15393 of 2019) filed by the Complainants. 13.Civil Appeal No. 6619 of 2016 filed by the Hospital and the Doctors is dismissed.
Judgment, page 48
From the headnote
Medical Negligence – Respondents Nos. 1 to 3-complainants filed a complaint of medical negligence against app ellant No. 1- hospital and appellant Nos. 2 to 4-the Paediatricia ns and ophthalmologist doctors working with the hospital and r espondent No. 4-the Gynaecologist before the National Consume r Disputes Redressal Commission – NCDRC held the appellant no. 1-ho spital guilty of medical negligence, since they failed to carry out the mandatory check up of Retinopathy of Prematurity (R OP) on respondent No. 1, who was a pre-term baby, which led to his total blindness and appellants Nos. 1
Authorities it was built on
- 2005 Jacob Mathew v. State of Punjab and Anr.
- 2009 Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences v. Prasanath S. Dhananka & Ors.
- 1996 Achutrao Haribhau Khodwa and Ors. v. State of Maharashtra and Ors.
- 2010 Kusum Sharma & Others v. Batra Hospital & Medical Research Centre & Others
- 2009 Malay Kumar Ganguly v. Dr. Sukumar Mukherjee and Others
- 2010 V. Kishan Rao v. Nikhil Super Speciality Hospital & Another.
- 2009 Ramesh Chandra Agrawal v. Regency Hospital Ltd. and Ors.
- 2013 Dr. Balram Prasad v. Dr. Kunal Saha & Ors.
- 2004 Savita Garg v. The Director, National Heart Institute
- 2019 Arun Kumar Manglik v. Chirayu Health and Medicare Private Ltd. & Anr.
- 1999 State of Himachal Pradesh v. Jai Lal and Ors.
- 2015 V Krishnakumar v. State of Tamil Nadu & Ors.
- 1968 Laxman Balkrishna Joshi v. Trimbak Bapu Godbole and Anr.
- 2009 P.G. Institute of Medical Education & Research Chandigarh v. Jaspal Singh & Ors.
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