`Govt doctors are bound to extend medical assistance´
(WorldNews India)

Chennai: A city civil court has held that government hospitals provide medical care at free of costs and medical officers employed therein are duty bound to extend medical assistance for preserving human life, failing which negligence would be imputed to the act of the authority concerned. XVII Additional City Civil Court Judge V.Thenmozhe who gave the ruling said, “It is needless to say that the free medical care is not covered by Consumer Protection Act. High level duty of care and responsibility on the part of the doctors as well as the administration is required in treating the patient in a government hospital. In Paramananth Kataria Vs.Union of India case, the...