For failing to diagnose the actual illness of a three-year-old girl for nearly eleven months — who was later found to be suffering from a malignant tumor in her abdomen — the Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Chandigarh, has directed two private child care clinics in Chandigarh and Mohali, along with their doctors, to pay a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the victim for medical negligence.

The child’s father, in his complaint, mentioned that his daughter began suffering from severe abdominal pain, weakness, vomiting, nausea, constipation, and a persistent dry cough in December 2017. Concerned, he took her to the Child Care Centre (Morning Clinic) in Chandigarh , where the doctors kept prescribing medicines one after another without ordering any diagnostic or blood tests — despite th

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