The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has held Healing Hospital and Institute of Paramedical Sciences, Sector 34-A, here guilty of medical negligence and directed it to pay Rs 50-lakh compensation to a woman. Her four fingers were amputated after these developed gangrene during treatment at the hospital.

In her complaint filed to the commission through advocate Varun Bhardwaj, Gurmeet Kaur (45), a resident of Mohali, said on November 25, 2020, she was admitted to Healing Hospital in Sector 34-A, Chandigarh. She was suffering from headache, vomiting, stomach ache and backache, and was diagnosed with gastric problem. She was treated by a doctor and given medication orally as well as via intravascular procedures.

A cannula was inserted in her left hand after consultation with

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