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£24 million compensation for medical negligence
short by Nitish Rajpurohit / on Wednesday, 29 January, 2014
The Royal Courts of Justice (London) has instructed the National Health Service to pay a fine of £24 million (INR 2.47 billion) to a 13-year-old girl. This is the highest ever compensation awarded in a case of medical negligence in Britain. In 2010, the hospital had mistakenly injected 'glue' into the arteries of girl, which left her profoundly brain damaged.
read more at Times of India