The Times of India | TNN | May 1, 2018, 03:06 IST.
NEW DELHI: The apex consumer commission, NCDRC, has slapped Rs 10-lakh fine on Delhi-based Jaipur Golden Hospital and another Rs 5 lakhon two doctors for “unfair trade practice”. The hospital admitted a patient in December 2006 where he underwent renal/kidney transplant four months later, even though the hospital didn’t have the licence to carry out such operations, the commission found.
The commission, however, dismissed Rohtak-based businessman Mulkh Raj’s contention of medical negligence, which, he said, resulted in graft dysfunction. The single-member bench of Dr S M Kantikar relied upon findings of the AIIMS medical board and the Delhi Medical Council, which looked into the case.
However, in his order passed last week, Kantikar said: “In my view, the hospital, before accepting the patient for RT, was duty-bound to disclose the status of their licence or refer the patient to an authorised institute. The non-disclosure amounts to an unfair trade practice by the hospital and as well as the treating doctors.”