New Delhi, Feb. 14 -- The Delhi State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission recently held Sir Gangaram Hospital and its five doctors guilty of negligence and directed them to pay damages to the kin of the patient.

The patient had approached the hospital for the removal of her spleen in 2015.

The patient had succumbed to her ailment in 2015. The petitioner alleged negligence on the part of the hospital and its doctors.

"We hold that the Opposite Parties being a team of doctors working conjointly, were negligent and deficient in providing their services pertaining to accurate diagnosis and operative care of the patient," the commission held in the judgement.

The bench headed by Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal (President) disposed of the ...