New Delhi. Cases of negligence of doctors during surgery are often reported. During an operation in a hospital in Bangalore, the doctors left a needle in the spine of a woman. The Karnataka Consumer Forum has ordered the doctors to pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh. According to the information, in 2004, the woman had undergone spine surgery in Deepak Hospital. During this, the doctors mistakenly left the needle inside.

According to the report, 46-year-old Padmavati had severe pain in her stomach and back. She endured this pain for 6 years and then underwent surgery in another hospital. In this surgery, the needle was removed from behind the spine. When the matter reached the Consumer Forum, Deepak Hospital and two doctors were ordered to pay legal expenses of Rs 50,000 to Padmavati.

Apart from this, now the hospital's negligence insurance company India Assurance Company Limited will have to pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh. A similar case came to light in Bhopal Care Hospital. Here, during the surgery of a woman, scissors were left inside her stomach. This was discovered four months later. When an X-ray was done, it was discovered that there were scissors in her stomach. After this, the scissors were removed by performing another operation.

Actually, the woman had undergone a tumor operation in the hospital. Due to the scissors in the stomach, infection started spreading in the woman's body.

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