Background:
Contrary to popular belief around rising number of medical negligence cases against doctors and hospitals every year, it was found that there is a decrease in filed medical negligence cases in India. In the year 2018, a total of 3241 cases of medical negligence cases had been filed in India while in the year 2019 only 2638 cases of medical negligence cases, which is 18.61% decrease.  A government panel formed to investigate into medical negligence cases has found that only 15% of the complaints received in Gurugram, from 112 cases filed between June 2017  and January 2019 were actual cases of medical negligence.  The responsibility to regulate the medical profession lies with the Medical Council of India (MCI): a statutory regulator. A total of 69 cases of medical negligence in 2017 were awarded punishment by the MCI, which constituted 44% of the cases referred to MCI by the state medical councils. In 2018, 28% or 40 cases referred to MCI by state medical councils awarded punishments to doctors and in until June 2019, 46% or 28 doctors were punished by MCI for medical negligence....