HC DIRECTS DELHI GOVERNMENT: 'Pay Rs 3L ex-gratia to toddler for loss of vision after premature birth'
Millennium Post Delhi|March 25, 2023
The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi government to pay Rs 3 lakh ex-gratia to a two-and-a halfyear-old child who lost his vision after premature birth at Guru Gobind Singh Government Hospital here.
HC DIRECTS DELHI GOVERNMENT: 'Pay Rs 3L ex-gratia to toddler for loss of vision after premature birth'

Justice Prathiba M Singh said awarded Rs 3 lakh towards the ex-gratia costs or reimbursement of medical expenses while taking a compassionate and empathetic view of the matter as also the fact that the parents had moved from one hospital to another to get the requisite treatment for the newly-born child.

"It is made clear that the direction for release of the sum of Rs 3 lakh shall not be construed as an opinion on merits qua the conduct of the hospital or the doctor concerned. The Delhi government shall release the amount within a period of 6 weeks from today," the court said in an order passed on March 21.

The court was hearing a petition by the minor boy, through his father, seeking compensation for alleged medical negligence of doctors of the government hospital.

The minor was born on June 28, 2020, as a premature child in the 29th week of gestation.

This story is from the March 25, 2023 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.

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