Women Compensated For Losing Eye-Sight After Undergoing Cataract Operation
The District Consumer Redressal forum ordered a compensation of Rs one lakh each to two women who lost their eye-sight after undergoing cataract operation// at a free medical Camp conducted on behalf of the Theni District Administration on January 24, 2003. The women submitted that after they underwent the operation at the Periyakulam Government Hospital,they developed severe pain and l...Fiji Boy Compensated for Losing Eye-sight due to Medical Lapse
A court in Fiji has awarded $458,755 in compensation to a 10-year-old Indo-Fijian boy who had lost his sight after being administered// excessive oxygen in an incubator post-birth. Jashnil Kumar, who was born prematurely on Jan 21, 1996, at a hospital in Lautoka, northwestern Fiji, was kept in an incubator for a week, according to a report in the Fiji Times newspaper. Kamni...Brain Defect boy Compensated for Medical Error
A 16-year-old boy whose brain damage at birth has turned him into a virtual vegetable has finally won compensation from the doctors his parents hold guilty, but that is of// little use to him. The National Consumer Dispute Redressal (NCDR) forum has ordered the Cosmopolitan Hospital here and two doctors to pay Rs.1.1 million ($24,300) to the parents of Chakkara alias Naveen Thomas, ho...Lost Sleep can Never Be Compensated for
Washington, A study conducted by sleep researchers at Northwestern University has shown that when animals are partially sleep deprived over consecutive days, they no longer attempt to catch up on sleep despite an accumulating sleep deficit. The study suggests that repeated partial sleep loss negatively affects an animals ability to compensate for lost sleep, and that the body respo...