Compensation lawyers win case for air stewardess

Compensation lawyers have won an air stewardess a payout after she was treated by a doctor at East Surrey Hospital and suffered pain during the procedure.

Now East Surrey NHS has made a payment to the lady, who has not been named.

"The client is happy with settlement she has received but still very unhappy with the unnecessary pain she was put through because of the carelessness of one doctor," Renukah Pragalathan, who represented the claimant, said.

Injury compensation was awarded to the client after the incident in 2008 when a doctor removed a pin from her toe, which she had in place from earlier surgery.

According to the patient, the medical practitioner did not listen to hear when she was in pain as he removed a dressing and accidentally took out the pin one month before it was scheduled for removal.

Last year another healthcare organisation, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, paid £6 million to an eight year old boy who was left with disabilities after being accidentally suffocated at birth, the Daily Mail reported.

Published by Hannah Carr