District Consumer forum has on Tuesday imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on an oncologist Dr TP Sahu and fine of Rs 50,000 on Jawaharlal Nehru Cancer hospital for negligence in treatment of a patient that led to the her death in 2008.
Ml Mishra, a resident of Bhopal had registered a complain with the consumer forum on April 15, 2009 stating that his wife Hemkumari Mishra had died while undergoing treatment for lung cancer in the hospital due to negligence on the part of hospital employees. She died in the CT scan machine while scanning was being carried out, allegedly the CT scan was being carried out in the absence of a radiologist.
Mishra had complaint against Jawaharlal Nehru Cancer hospital, Oncologist Dr TP Sahu, Physician Dr Pradeep Kolekar, lab Technician Rajeev Tripathi and United India Insurance Company in the district consumer forum Bhopal.
Mishra alleged that Dr TP Sahu did drug trial on her wife and gave over dose of a medicine-Morphine Capacitabine which worsened her condition.