Former lawmaker Gayatri Sah has moved the Lalitpur District Court demanding compensation of Rs 100 million from Mediciti Hospital claiming she suffered financial, mental and physical losses due to the hospital and its doctors.
The court confirmed that Sah lodged the case on October 15 demanding compensation as per clause 50 of the Consumers Rights Protection Act. "It claims that the baby with Down syndrome had to be delivered due to wrong report by the hospital, and demands the compensation amount for life-long treatment expenses of the baby," Registrar at the court Nagendra Kalakheti told Setopati.
The court has taken the case into process but it has yet to be scheduled for hearing.
Sah had given birth to a son at Mediciti on March 12 and left her son at the hospital accusing it of negligence in diagnosis of Down syndrome. She took the boy home only after the Patan High Court ordered her to do so.
Sah has been claiming that the hospital did not conduct tests for Down syndrome during her pregnancy despite her telling the hospital doctors that her previous kid also had Down syndrome, and been demanding that the hospital take responsibility for raising the kid.
The hospital has been claiming it was not negligent during her consultations at the time of pregnancy.
"The health of our son will never improve. We have sought guarantee of life-long treatment as he has to undergo treatment throughout his life, and his life may be periled if deprived of good health service," Sah's husband Rajesh Mahato told Setopati. "We had to spend hundreds of thousands in treatment after the baby was born with disabilities. We have suffered physical and mental torture. We have been forced to lodge the compensation case as Mediciti did not consider that."
