BEFORE THE HYDERABAD

F.A.No.1292 OF 2008 AGAINST C.C.No.67 OF 2007 DISTRICT FORUM NALGONDA

Between:

1.     M/s parjijathaMultispecialityHospital

Doctors Colony, Miryalaguda Post,
Nalgonda District rep. by Dr.P.Parjijatha

A N D

Smt B.Radhika W/o Ramu
Aged about 26 years,
Occ: Housewife
R/oAlurVillage, Gattu Mandalam
Mahaboobnagar District

Counsel for the Appellant            

Counsel for the Respondent

AND

SRI R.LAKSHMINARASIMHA RAO, HON’BLE MEMBER

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THURSDAY, THE TWENTIETH 

TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN

Oral Order (As per Sri R.Lakshminarasimha Rao, Hon’ble Member)

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2.              YashodaHospital,Hyderabad.

3.    YashodaHospital  YashodaHospital.   `2,50,000/- for the cost of hospitalization, medicine, blood, doctor’s fees, lab tests and attendants expenses.

4.           `100/- to the opposite party no.1 through DD No.337262 dated 16.2.2006.  

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6.    `50,000/-. Hyderabad.   YashodaHospitalHyderabad  YashodaHospital 

7.     YashodaHospital.  YashodaHospital.    

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10.      The complainant has not examined doctors ofYashodaHospital.

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The point for consideration is whether the District Forum was right in recording finding that the opposite parties no.1 and 2 were negligent in rendering treatment to the complainant?

12.       DiagnosticCenter.   

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“Where you get a situation which involves the use of some special skill or competence, then the test as to whether there has been negligence or not is not the test of the man on the top of a Clapham omnibus, because he has not got this special skill. The test is the standard of the ordinary skilled man exercising and professing to have that special skill.  

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Negligence  

 18.          YashodaHospitalhas been made basis of the case of the opposite parties instead of the case sheet pertaining to the opposite party no.1 hospital to state the condition of the complainant at the opposite party no.1 hospital.

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21.   YashodaHospital YashodaHospital. A patient goes to the hospital on account of its reputation so as to get best.

22.   YashodaHospital  

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Shock

Fall in hemotcrit value grater than 20% from normal

Blood replacement.

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25.    YashodaHospital. It is not difficult for the opposite party no.2 to file her husband’s affidavit or to examine before the District Forum.

26.   YashodaHospital  Hyderabad 

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28.   `4,09,183/-`7,29,183/- with interest and she has stated that she had incurred a sum of`1,89,183/- towards medical expenditure atYashodaHospital. The final bill statement dated 21.1.2006 show that the complainant had incurred an amount of for`96,633/-. The complainant had suffered pain and mental tension on account of the deficiency of service rendered by the opposite parties. A sum of`50,000/- for pain and suffering is reasonable besides the amount spent by the complainant under Final Bill Statment issued by Yashoda Hospital,`96,633/- Therefore, a sum of`1,50,000/- if awarded on all counts to the complainant would meet the ends of justice. Accordingly, the amount awarded by the District Forum is modified.

25.   `4,09,183/- to`1,50,000/- and the rest of the order upheld. 

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