KOLLAM: In a case related to the death of a woman after she underwent sterilisation procedure in a private hospital in Punaloor, Kollam additional session’s court on Wednesday sentenced three doctors and three nurses for a jail term of one year..
On September 25, 2006, Mini (37) from Karavaloor Soja Bhavan was admitted to hospital in the noon. As her condition worsened she was shifted to another hospital in Punaloor. She was later shifted to another private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram as she was sinking but, she died by 5pm.
Her husband Philip Thomas had filed a complaint with the police station that the cause of her death was an error that happened in administering anaesthesia. A consumer court later took up the case and the family of the victim was awarded a compensation of Rs 7 lakh with interest.
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