Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Tamil Nadu government to pay a whopping Rs 1.72 crore as compensation and reimbursement of medical expenses to a girl who lost her vision due to negligence at a government hospital.
A bench comprising Justices J S Khehar and S A Bobde, which had reserved its verdict in the case on April 8, allowed the plea filed by her father V Krishnakumar. The girl had lost her vision due to the negligence during retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) surgery at a government hospital in Chennai in 1996. ROP is a potentially blinding eye disorder that primarily affects premature infants weighing around 1kg. The bench directed that Rs 1.3 <g data-gr-id="11">cr</g> would be paid as compensation and Rs 42.8 lakh would be towards reimbursement of medical expense.