Justice eludes India's medical negligence victims


62-year-old Indian woman Suresh Rani, given an overdose of sodium by doctors at a hospital which resulted in a permanent brain damage, is being fed through a tube by her son Rohit Goyal at their home in Noida, in New Delhi. - AFP / Sajjad Hussain

New Delhi (AFP) - Four years after Shishir Chand's brother died when his heart condition was allegedly misdiagnosed as gas, his fight for compensation has barely begun in India's notoriously slow justice system.

Chand recalls racing 33-year-old Vishal to a private hospital in eastern Jamshedpur city, as he clutched his chest in agony.

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