on APRIL 8, 2015
In a scathing judgment delivered yesterday, Central Information Commission (CIC), highest authority for enforcement of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, has directed Fortis Hospital in Delhi to provide the entire medical records to an advocate whose father died from alleged medical negligence (see the entire CIC judgment below). The son claimed that negligence and maltreatment by the hospital caused his father’s death and sought the medical records from the Fortis Hospital to establish his case but the hospital denied his request (under RTI Act) on the plea that the requested information was “private, confidential and privileged”. Rejecting the claim by the Fortis Hospital, CIC has held that malpractice by private hospitals “amounting to medical terrorism”. The CIC has ended this remarkable judgment by calling that the government, MCI and other regulatory authorities have to see that “license to practice medicine will not become license to kill and extort and come to the rescue of the helpless patients”.
The above is PBT India.
The original article may be read on with actual judgement
http://www.pbtindia.com/archives/2592?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=private-hospital-must-provide-medical-records-under-rti-cic-slams-fortis-hospital-for-denying-information-to-a-victim-of-medical-negligence
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