Hospital to pay Rs 7 lakh for wrongly transplanting pacemaker

A consumer forum here has directed a city hospital to pay over Rs 7 lakh to a Delhi Police personnel for wrongly transplanting a pace-maker which was not needed, saying it was “against all medical ethics”. South Delhi District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum bench, presided by Justice N K Goel, asked Rohini-based Saroj Hospital and Heart Institute to pay Rs 7,24,135 to Ravinder Singh Pawar, then Public Relations Officer at the Delhi Police Headquarters. “We hold that Opposite Party-2 (hospital) had implanted the AICD (automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator) in the complainant without there being a need to do so, only with a view to earn profits. “Not only this, Opposite Party-2 also implanted an unnecessary AICD which in the facts and circumstances of the case was against all medical ethics,” the forum said, holding the hospital guilty of “unfair trade practice”.