Sydney: Prosecutors have filed in an Australian court for a fresh trial of a former Indian origin surgeon in a hospital in that country for causing grievous bodily harm to a patient.
Prosecutors in the Australian state of Queensland filed for the trial of Jayant Patel before the chief judge of the Brisband district court on Tuesday, local media reported.
Patel, who worked in the Bundaberg Base Hospital in Queensland, has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm to a 65-year-old patient, Ian Rodney Vowles, by unnecessarily removing his colon in 2004.
The trial is set to be held late in September 2012 after the court in April proposed that the trial be listed in the week commencing on September 23....
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03:15 PM, May 07, 2013
When a two-month-old baby dies of burn injuries after his body is lowered into boiling water by negligent nurses, a mother turns Citizen Journalist to expose the hospital's brutality. ...
07:36 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Barmer: A shocking case of medical negligence has come to light in Rajasthan. In the absence of doctors and nurses, a sweeper attended to an infant and chopped off the child's finger in a hospital in Barmer. The sweeper was trying to remove the stitches on the child's finger. After failing to do so, he chopped it off and tossed it in the trash. The finger still can't be found....
07:47 AM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed a Ayurveda medical practitioner to pay Rs 15 lakh compensation for prescribing wrong medicine to a child causing his mental retardation. A bench headed by Justice GS Singhvi asked the Rishikesh-based medical practitioner to pay the amount to the child's family within three months. The bench enhanced the amount of compensation from five lakh, directed by the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, to...
09:44 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Meerut: A poor man and his two-year-old girl allegedly died after they were denied admission by two hospitals in Meerut. The family members of the dead man Mangeram allege that Meerut district hospital and Meerut Medical College Hospital refused to admit him and his daughter Sweety as they were poor. When Meerut district hospital chief medical superintendent Doctor AS Rathore was asked about the deaths, he replied that he had...
12:07 PM, Apr 05, 2013
A young woman and mother of two, Shailaja has been reduced to a completely vegetative state reportedly because of an anaesthesia overdose she underwent while in for a surgery. Today, she cannot eat, speak or move. She is completely immobile, all because her family say an overdose of anaesthesia. What should happen in such cases of medical negligence? Dr R Ramnarayan, a top neurosurgeon who has offered his help to...
06:39 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Shailaja, a mother of two was left in a near vegetative state three years ago after her doctors botched up her surgery and then refused to take responsibility for it. Shailaja's husband had turned citizen journalist to get help for his wife. ...
11:37 PM, Apr 01, 2013
A neurosurgeon in Chennai has offered some hope saying that Shailaja may be able to regain partial movement. ...
09:21 PM, Apr 01, 2013
Two days after CNN-IBN highlighted her plight due to medical negligence, the Bangalore hospital that botched up Shailaja's surgery has been forced to act. It is expected to submit its relief plan for the victim to the government on Monday. ...
08:21 AM, Apr 01, 2013
After CNN-IBN exposed the story of medical negligence in 38-year-old Shailaja's case, where the mother of two was incapacitated after a surgery in Bangalore's Mallige Hospital, the government of Bangalore has swung into action. ...
10:59 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Karnataka Health Minister SA Ramadas said on Saturday that criminal proceedings will be initiated against the hospital that provided treatment to a woman who has been in near vegetative state for three years post a botched surgery. The hospital has been given time till Saturday evening to respond on how they will provide compensation to Shailaja's family. ...
03:15 PM, Mar 30, 2013
In a horrifying incident of medical negligence, a woman was left severely incapacitated for the last three years because of a botched surgery by a Bangalore Hospital. Karnataka Health Minister SA Ramadas promised swift action to help her. ...
09:11 PM, Mar 29, 2013
In a horrifying incident of medical negligence, a woman was left severely incapacitated for the last three years because of a botched surgery by a Bangalore Hospital. After a CNN-IBN campaign, Karnataka Health Minister SA Ramadas has spoken out and promised action by Saturday. ...
08:40 PM, Mar 29, 2013
In a horrifying incident of medical negligence, a woman was left severely incapacitated for the last three years because of a botched surgery by a Bangalore Hospital. Thirty eight-year-old Shailaja was admitted to Mallige Medical Centre on November 29, 2009 for severe back pain. ...
08:07 PM, Mar 29, 2013
A young life put in jeopardy, thanks to a blatant medical negligence. In Kerala, an eight-year-old girl's life is in danger, after she was given blood infected with HIV. ...
07:34 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Muniraju turns CJ to expose the callous attitude of a Bangalore hospital. Complications after surgery left wife Shailaja in a vegetative state, she could not walk or talk. ...
03:07 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Watch CJs speak out against injustice and fight back against the odds in the system and society. ...
02:37 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Deepika Manchanda joined hands with the Citizen Journalist team had exposed how Max Hospital Pitampura was not equipped to deal with emergencies. ...
02:18 PM, Mar 18, 2013
A compensation of Rs 38.4 lakh has been awarded to the family of a woman chartered accountant, who suffered brain damage and is in vegetative state since 1999 after undergoing a fertility test at a Hyderabad-based maternity clinic, by the apex consumer commission. The clinic and its two doctors were directed by the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) to pay the compensation on a plea by the husband and...
10:02 PM, Feb 09, 2013
The police on Wednesday arrested a Delhi government hospital's technician and the supervisor in a medical negligence case after five ICU patients died after their oxygen supply was cut off during maintenance work. ...
10:18 AM, Dec 06, 2012
