Jaipur: Terming the damage of a patient’s eye in a cataract operation as a serious service defect, the district consumer commission, Jaipur-11 has imposed a fine of Rs 16.61 lakh on a doctor and the hospital where the operation was performed.
Chairperson of the commission, Gyarsi Lal Meena and member Hemlata Agarwal gave this order on the complaint of Shakuntala Devi on Sept 19.
Dr Rajkumar Sharma and RM Sahay Memorial Hospital and Research Centre in the city were also directed to return Rs 18,000 charged from the complainant for the operation with 9% interest from the date of filing the complaint.
The Commission said, due to the negligence of the opponent in the operation, the complainant’s eye got infected and her eyeball got damaged. “Due to which she lost her vision forever. The facts of the case also prove that the opponent doctor did not operate her eye properly,” the commission said.
The complainant said that she had a problem in her right eye and visited the house of the opposite doctor on Dec 19, 2005. After this, an injection was given in her eye on Dec17, 2006, due to which her eye was in pain for several days. She was in constant touch with the doctor and kept taking medicines accordingly. Meanwhile, on Sept 24, 2008, she was advised to undergo cataract surgery.
Initially she was given medicines and later on Sept 26, 2009 Dr. Rajkumar operated on her eye and charged Rs18,000 for the lens and operation. A few days after the operation, when the bandage was removed from her eye, she could not see and the pupil also turned white..
