BMICH ordered to pay Rs. 180m as compensation to Samitha
Posted by Editor on February 27, 2015 - 12:32 pm
The court has ordered BMICH to pay a compensation of Rs. 180 million to Dr. Samitha Samanmali. She was paralyzed when a shelter collapsed on her at ‘Deyata Kirula’ exhibition in 2008 at BMICH.
Samanmali who was a medical student at the time sustained severe injuries in the accident on February 15, 2008 at the BMICH when she was organising the setting up of stalls for a medical exhibition.

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