sangieeta singh

M a banker by profession..honest..confident..strong headed woman.a proud fauji wife

[✎𝒜 πundhati🌵🍉🇵🇸 @Polytikles]

He tells his devotees to give up lively pleasures & attachment.

He travels in Business class.

[Kapil @kapsology]

One foot of Ganesha, reserved for VVIP Shilpa Shetty for 2.20 min while 220 other devotees are pushed, dragged so that they don't spend more than a second on the another foot.

[ADV. ASHUTOSH J. DUBEY 🇮🇳 @AdvAshutoshBJP]

BAN VIP CULTURE: This is how normal people are treated in ‘Lalbagh Cha Raja’ ganpati V/S VIP culture.

[Tajinder Bagga @TajinderBagga]

AAP Leader Raghav Chaddha who shown 2.44 Lakh yearly income in his election affidavit booked a Maharaja suite costs 10 Lakh Rs per night.

[Aaraynsh @aaraynsh]

Let's tag @bookmyshow to help them understand what they are sponsoring.

[Newton Bank Kumar @idesibanda]

Demands by AIBEA (Left Bank Union)
✅ Inflation
✅ Housing 4 all
✅ Farmers MSP
✅ Taxation System
✅ Privatization of PSEs
✅ Electricity Bill
✅ Railway Concession
❌ Banker's Issues

Members fooled by leaders as Banker's issues aren't prioritized in COD.

[Chandivali Citizens Welfare Association (CCWA) @ChandivaliCCWA]

Residents of high rises in Powai are risking the life of poor house help by asking them to clean windows standing on the parapet. The video is of a building named Torino in Hiranandani gardens Powai Mumbai. In the past there has been an instance of house help falling to death in Hiranandani gardens. @MumbaiPolice @CPMumbaiPolice

[यमराज @autopsy_surgeon]

I was checking the answer papers of UG students.

One of the questions was:"What are the medico-legal aspects of artificial insemination?"

One student had written, "Artificial insemination will be the future of human reproduction. Because people don’t want to marry nowadays, they just want to have kids with desirable genes."

[Kanan Bahl @BahlKanan]

Shocking!🚨

Another Banking employee shares about his bad working experience.

Bankers have the pressure to force-sell useless products left-right-centre.

If you've to get work done, their standard response is "Ye policy lelo, fir karwa denge"

Translation: Buy this policy then we'll get it done.

[Newton Bank Kumar @idesibanda]

Not just Resignation, But Slap on SBI.

[BJP Uttar Pradesh @BJP4UP]

बेटियों को सशक्त बनाने का ढोंग करने वाली कांग्रेस अब क्यों मौन है। उसके ही शासित प्रदेश में एक बेटी के साथ इतना अत्याचार हो रहा है। गहलोत सरकार में निरंतर ऐसी जघन्य घटनाएं हो रहीं हैं, मगर मुख्यमंत्री साहब ना जाने किस बिल में आराम फरमा रहे हैं।

[Pradeep Bhandari(प्रदीप भंडारी)🇮🇳 @pradip103]

This is not Manipur, This is Rajasthan.

It won't create furore because it's Rajasthan.

A woman being stripped, molested and harassed in public

In the last month alone, 118 rapes have been reported in #Rajasthan

[Sameet Thakkar (Modi Ka Parivar) @thakkar_sameet]

Respected PM @narendramodi Ji and HM @AmitShah Ji Maharashtra needs your attention

DHFL SCAM ACCUSED ARE STATE GUEST OF MAHARASHTRA GOVERNMENT...

SHAHID USMAN BALWA IS SARKARI JAMAI OF MAHARASHTRA GOVERNMENT AS ALL THE BIG LAND DEALS OF MUMBAI ARE HANDED OVER TO HIM THROUGH POLITICAL PRESSURE. ONE GURDIAN MINISTER IS NOW BUSSINES PARTNER OF 2G SCAM FAME Shahid Balwa.

[Singh Varun @singhvarun]

Here’s why I keep on saying that biggest bane for India is its bureaucracy. These pictures are from different roads of Kalyan & Dombivali. For the last 2.5 years this city is run by the Municipal Commissioner, with zero interference from Corporators as there are none since 2020, but still the city is such a mess. These Babus have failed us all big time. We need to get rid of this system which doesn’t work.

[Gaurav Taneja @flyingbeast320]

This day, 3 years ago.

The same Capt Manish Uppal who was suspended by #DGCA after investigation into safety lapses is now appointed as the Head of Operations in Air India.

Safety in India is a Joke, if you can please your bosses you will climb the ladder.

[Suvendu Adhikari @SuvenduWB]

I hang my head in shame that this incident has happened in West Bengal.

The Indian Flag has been disrespectfully grubbed up and thrown to the ground. This dispicable incident occurred yesterday at Itinda, Basirhat; North 24-Parganas, in front of Police personnel.

The Indian National Flag has been specified as an Emblem in the Schedule of The Emblems And Names (Prevention Of Improper Use) Act, 1950.

The Section 2 of The Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971, specifies that; whoever in any public place or in any other place within public view; burns, mutilates, defaces, difiles, disfigures, destroys, tramples upon or [otherwise shows disrespect to or brings] into contempt (whether by words, either spoken or written, or by acts) the Indian National Flag or the Constitution of India or any part thereof, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.

The deplorable action has violated everything mentioned above.

I am urging the Chief Secretary, Director-General of @WBPolice, Superintendent of Police - Basirhat Police District & District Magistrate of North 24-Parganas to nab the culprits & take the strictest action against them as per the law.

@chief_west
@mmalaviya1

[Roshan Rai @RoshanKrRaii]

This teacher deserves to get famous 👏

This should be replicated in all schools across India.

Share it as much as you can.

[Swathi Bellam @BellamSwathi]

Virat saar is great
He advises Poor Hindus not to fire crackers or use water on holi to help fight climate change
And then flies solo on a chartered jet to reach India from Caribbean island so that he can reach on time to tell hindus not to celebrate Ganesh to protect environment

[Tonmoy Goswami @tonmoygo]

In 2004, my dad filed a case of medical negligence against one of India's most powerful hospitals viz. Batra Hospital, Delhi and Padmashree awardee cardiologist Dr Upendra Kaul.

Case was filed in the state consumer court, Delhi & my dad asked for a compensation of Rs. 80 lakh. (80,00,000 INR)

After 11 years, in 2015 my dad passed away, without getting justice.

My senior citizen widowed mother decided not to give up.

TLDR; we won the case after 19 long years, but what transpired is a story that teaches you that, in India, it's better if you can settle outside the court.

But, sometimes it's not about the compensation, settlement, or winning a case; it's about making sure the perpetrators are taught a lesson so that the negligence never gets repeated. It's also about closure.

Here's the story of how a common middle-class Indian family from Assam fought a mighty & powerful establishment in their own city (Delhi) for 19 long years and brought the hospital to its knees:

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It's a long story, but I'll try to keep it short.

In 2004, my dad went to Delhi alone for a routine heart check-up & returned with a pace-maker in his chest.

Escalated too quickly? Exactly my mother's reaction when he called from Delhi asking her to immediately board a flight from our hometown in Guwahati, Assam.

Long story short:
1. Dad went for a diagnostic study called EPS. Batra hospital took consent for it.
2. Protocol is that if EPS study came abnormal, RFA is suggested as the next step as a treatment after discussing with the patient. Patient needs to provide a fresh consent for RFA.
3. However, if the pathways are too close, RFA is risky & is not recommended as it can be fatal.
4. EPS shows if pathways are close or not.

My dad's EPS showed that pathways are close.

In spite of that, Batra hospital and its cardiologists went ahead and performed RFA:
a. Without consulting with the patient or relatives.
b. Without taking fresh consent as it's a separate procedure.

Things then went south real quick.

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Due to closeness of pathways, obvious complications occurred & my dad's life was in danger. The only way to save him? Put a pace-maker in his chest immediately!

So that's what they did: put a temporary pace-maker while informing my mother to immediately catch a flight to Delhi so that they can put a permanent pace-maker the next day.

And you would think, the ordeal would end there? Cute.

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My parents returned home after a few days & dad was supposed to recover.

But instead, we saw his chest area getting swollen day by day. We freaked out and consulted a cardiologist in Guwahati. And they confirmed the worse: the pace-maker was not installed properly and one of the pipes pierced through his heart.

He needs an urgent emergency open-heart surgery to fix the pace-maker.

So, my family went through another few days of anxiety, stress and disbelief.

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My dad, is known in our friends and family circles as someone who's always been an super-active person; always engaged in some form of work; be it gardening, fixing electronics, repairing things around the house. My mother used to call him the perfect engineer since he could fix anything compared to the other two engineers in the family viz. me and my sister who were lazy compared to him.

The series of surgeries and a pace-maker did slow my dad down, but couldn't kill his spirit. However, we could see the difference. We would pace himself while climbing stairs etc.

It would hurt us a lot. And him too.

So he decided to drag Batra Hospital to the consumer forum.

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Our family advocate resides in Kolkata and he agreed to take the case up pro-bono. We assumed it'll be an open and shut case. And since it's consumer court, we assumed it will be quick justice.

Oh, we are so wrong. So so wrong.

My dad attended every single hearing of the case from 2004 till 2015 when he passed away. He used to take a flight from Guwahati while booking a ticket for our advocate from Kolkata. Then there was cost of accommodation in Delhi.

Attending these hearings was no cheap affair. When you add up each hearing over 19 years...it quickly adds up to a large amount.

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On many occasions, someone from hearing judge bench would be absent so nothing would happen. You get a new date, months in the future.
Or the opposite party advocate would be absent, or cite lame excuses to stall the proceedings. E.g. once the opposite advocate asked the court for a new date since his colleague was stuck in traffic and couldn't reach the court. And we were given a new date!

Imagine the frustration.

And this happened over 11 years till my dad passed away.

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When dad passed away, Batra Hospital might have heaved a sigh of relief. Can't blame them; they had not yet met my mother.

She decided to continue the fight. That's when I started taking active participation as well.

Let's take a pause and understand why it took so many years?

1. It's a medical case and the judges felt inadequate without proper medical advice.
2. The opposite party was a Padmashree awardee celebrated cardiologist and the hospital was founded by people walking the corridoors of power.
3. Deliberate delays of absenteeism, withdrawing evidence from court etc.

The court asked an independent medical board for their recommendations. The medical board tilted in our favour for obvious reasons: the medical negligence was apparent.

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Batra hospital tried to confuse the judge's bench by claiming that consent was taken for RFA. When asked to provide evidence, they would repeatedly provide the EPS consent form. This would delay the case and do nothing else.

They also never submitted the EPS traces to the court. They claimed that the traces were provided to my family and they have no record in their system. Which was utterly bullsh*t because we didn't have the traces.

They didn't provide the traces as it would immediately shut the case. Traces will show that the pathways were close, so RFA was not warranted.

Unable to provide consent form & Unable to provide traces went against them.

And in 2018, we won the case in the Delhi state consumer forum. The court awarded 10 lakh (10,00,000 INR) compensation with 7% simple interest from the date of filing the case.

While it was nothing compared to the asked compensation of 80 lakhs, we were happy as it was never about the money anyway.

But our happiness was short-lived, as Batra Hospital decided to appeal the judgement in the higher court: The National Consumer Forum.

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And so we were back to square one. I promised mom that even if it takes another 14 years, I'll continue the fight.

And so we did. Date after date, hearing after hearing. Same BS all over again.

However, our advocate Mr. Neguive Ahmed is one of the best in the business. A senior citizen himself, he was so frustrated that he took it upon himself to turn Godmode on. I witnessed one of his argument session at court and he ruthlessly thrashed the opposing party left, right and center. He didn't even spare the bench & schooled them for taking forever to deliver a judgement.

This time, he was not going to let it continue for 10 more years. So he pushed at every hearing for shorter dates.

And in 2023, we won again!

Batra was brought to its knees. They can appeal again, yes; but it has to be the Supreme Court.

And after getting their a** whopped twice in a row for 19 years, they didn't have the courage to approach Supreme Court. And finally gave up.

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It begs a question: Did we really win? And even if we did win technically, at what cost?

I would say, it comes at a price of your mental wellbeing, financial expense, a lot of frustration, shameless advocates and it leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

Batra's advocate is so shameless, he allegedly told our advocate, "We have worked for so many years on the case, won't you give us something? Your client has won a hefty amount"

Bloody bloodsucker! You worked AGAINST us all these years and now you want 'something' for your 'service'?!

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So, is justice delayed justice denied?

Definitely yes, my family is just happy that the case is over. But we are also happy to have never given up. I understand that it may not be financially possible for everyone to not give up on a long legal battle, but that's what they want: drown you into date after date so that one fine day, you simply give up because it starts looking futile.

If you can, persist. As my mom did and my dad would have.

Even if it's justice denied, it's justice nonetheless for the future patients.

It's like paying for the next person.

At least the next time they perform any surgery that requires consent, they will remember the Goswami family.

Thanks for reading.

[sangieeta singh @sangieetasingh]

@nsitharaman @ChairmanIba