Medical negligence or medical malpractice in Nepal is defined as a medical professional's or healthcare provider's failure to exercise reasonable care and skill, resulting in harm, death, or a bad outcome for the patient. This can involve mistakes in diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, or health management. The reason behind medical negligence that the doctors have stated includes the understaffing of nurses, overwork, stress or fatigue, lack of time, and failure of health professionals to work as a team and more. Medical negligence is provided in both civil (tort) and criminal wrong.
