By Express News Service

CHENNAI: A private hospital in the city has been ordered to pay ` 13 lakh as compensation to the family of a BE graduate who died due to medical negligence.

K Revathi, who was 22-years-old when she died in 2014, was studying BE in a private college.

According to her father’s counsel, she was administered a wrong injection in 2010 in Kedar Hospitals at Moulivakkam, where she was taken with fever. Her condition worsened and she was soon admitted in Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital where she died in 2014.

Revathi’s father N Kasi Viswanathan filed a complaint before the consumer disputes redressal forum at Chengalpattu alleging that his daughter died due to wrong treatment given by the private hospital. The hospital also refused to issue discharge summary.

The forum treated the hospital ex-parte since it did not file its counter on time.

Counsel argued that Viswanathan had to sell his lathe workshop, pledge jewellery and borrow money from various sources to cover the medical expenses of Revathi, his only child. The complainant also said that his wife had been affected mentally since the time of the incident. The forum directed the hospital to pay `13,46,000 as compensation to Revathi’s family within two months.