[Speaker 1]: So we operate on these fractures around the joints and sometimes the patients or we know that the patient will develop arthritis. But that arthritis may take some years to develop. In some cases, unfortunately for the patient, it develops within a year, but in some cases it develops after 10 years. So is my liability for 10 years?
[Speaker 2]: No. There's no liability for 10 years because there could be another disease, could be n number of reason also for any other, not maybe connected directly to the surgery. So thing need to be connected with your primary thing. See, there's two things which is very clear. One is immediate, second is distance cause. Immediate cause, definitely doctors are liable, not for distance cause. Now 10 years later if something happened or one year later something happened, that is distance cause, cannot be said to be related to particular surgery. Now if you know that this is going to be the possible complication, my advice that every single doctor when doing a counsel with patient naturally doing a counselling or taking a consent. If you are very clear that this could be the one of the possibilities, pen down it or write down it. Put on a paper because that remains for longer. Oral people can forget. Pen cannot. So that remains and can be safeguarded. So not to worry about that and secondly, law of limitation also is of two years. So two years there's a limit time for which we can responsible for any procedure under consumer protection act.