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SRVNN (Engineer)     14 August 2014

Medical negligence

Dear Lawyers,

I have undergone bypass surgery in a very popular hospital in chennai. After surgery I am suffering from wound infection at my sternum bone.The infection happened due to the poor care and negligent act of the surgeon/ hospital staff.

Because of this I am suffering with open wounds and pain. The infection specialist from the same hospital says this infection could not be cured and I have to live with the wounds forever.CT scan report says the remaining particles of the suture materials remain in the sternum bone and that is the cause of the infection.

 

Could any one clarify me if I could sue the hospital for its negligence and for my suffering.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Regards,

SRVNN



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M.Sheik Mohammed Ali (advocate)     14 August 2014

can you strongly proved that the medical negligence of the hospital, then you can file case against the hospital, you can get another hospital certificate that the earlier hospital treatment cause for this wound and unproper treatement.

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Laxmi Kant Joshi (Advocate )     14 August 2014

Get all the medical reports relevant to your surgury like MRI , CT Scan etc in which it clearly shows this infections is caused by the negligency of hospital staff , also get written openion of an expert from another good hospital regarding why this infection developed in your body or is cured or not or possibility of treatment etc after taking their views file your case for claim in The district consumer redressal forum of your district , engage a good lawyer for your case .
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N.K.Assumi (Advocate)     15 August 2014

In case of medical profession, negligence means failure to act in accordance with the standard of reasonable competent medical men at the time. If there are one or more perfectly standard and if a medical man conforms with one of those proper standard than she is not negligent. A doctor is not guilty of negligence if she has acted in accordance with a practice accepted as proper by responsible body of medical men skilled in that particular art. A doctor can not be held responsible for acting with the prevailing practice just because there is a contrary view or opinion. Doctor can not be held negligence ss long as doctor does not act obstinately and pig-headedly with some old technique if it had been proved to be contrary to what is really substantially the well informed medical opinion. As such I dint think she is negligent as long as she acted with the prevailing medical standard merely because there can be some other opinion.

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