New Delhi: A city gynaecologist has been ordered by Delhi State Consumer Commission to pay Rs 5.1 lakh damages for negligently terminating a 13-week-old pregnancy of a woman, allegedly damaging her uterus and necessitating its removal. The commission asked Dr RR Rana to pay damages to the woman saying he terminated the pregnancy, older than 12 weeks negligently in his private nursing home without having any concurrence from two other doctors, violating the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act.
"In this case the foetus was 13 weeks old when the MTP was done by Dr Rana alone at a private nursing home. There was as such violation of provisions of MTP Act 1971, not only because termination of pregnancy was done in a private nursing home but also because there was no other doctor beside him.
"The violation of the Act makes the doctor prima facie responsible for negligence and we need nothing more to hold him negligent. As will seem, in consequence of negligence of opposite party 1 (Dr Rana), complainant (Pahwa) suffered prolonged illness agony and pain and she must, therefore, be adequately compensated for the same," said the bench also comprising Salma Noor.
"The doctor will therefore pay to the complainant (Kusum Pahwa) a sum of Rs 5 lakh towards compensation including treatment expenditure besides Rs 10,000 as litigation cost," the bench added. Under the MTP Act, a medical practitioner may terminate a pregnancy only if the foetus is less than 12 weeks old
04:26 PM, Nov 12, 2012
Bangalore: Comparing Western Ghats to the character of Draupadi in Mahabharata, Ecologist Madhav Gadgil on Wednesday said the inappropriate government policies are stripping the Western Ghats of all their resources. He was speaking at Bio Diversity Asia 2012, a gathering of ecologists from around the world. The Dushyasana here is bad governance. There is no Krishna to save the Western Ghats. It is just wasteful consumption in order to show...
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Jaipur: A senior gynaecologist at a government-run hospital in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district was on Monday caught taking a bribe of Rs 800 from family members of a patient and arrested, police said. According to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials, Manju Khanna, was head of gynaecology department in Mahatma Gandhi Government Hospital in Bhilwara, some 250 km from Jaipur. "Kamlesh Kumar Somani had approached ACB saying that his wife was admitted...
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Bangalore: A team of gynaecologists in Bangalore have taken it upon themselves to upgrade a corporation-run maternity home. Dr Latha Venkataraman and her team of 15 specialists are improving the rate of institutional deliveries in their area. "I believe this hospital was functioning very well. I think it was started in 1962 and most of the people from this area used to come here. Unfortunately, as years went by the... 
Visakhapatnam: Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni reckons senior players Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh will be hungry for success in the two-match Twenty20 series against New Zealand as they are making a comeback after more than a year. Dhoni said the two T20Is will give the players chance to get into the groove before the World T20 in Sri Lanka, beginning September 18. They will be hungry to cement place... 
