MudurNew Delhi: Three fathers who lost a child each to alleged medical negligence and a patients' rights group have asked the Union health ministry to establish new mechanisms to address complaints of negligence. The existing institutional mechanisms to protect patients has failed and broken down, their letter to minister J.P. Nadda and health officials on Saturday said. The parents and the rights group, the All India Drug Action Network, have sought government intervention to help patients' families who are struggling against what they say are systems "rigged against them". The third father, Gopendra Parmar, lost his seven-year-old son who had been treated for dengue in a Gurgaon hospital. The procedures and norms should take into account hearings from patients' families as opposed to instances where the investigations appeared to rely exclusively on medical records maintained by hospitals, the letter said.

Source: The Telegraph May 26, 2018 21:11 UTC