In light of the Supreme Court judgment in Indian Medical Association v. V.P. Shantha and the definition…

Service rendered free of charge by a medical practitioner attached to a hospital/nursing home or a medical officer employed in a hospital/nursing home where such services are rendered free of charge to everybody, would not be 'service' as defined in Section 2(42) of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019

Service rendered at a non-government hospital/nursing home where charges are required to be paid by the persons availing of such services falls within the purview of the expression 'service' as defined in Section 2(42) of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019

The service rendered by a medical officer to his employer under the contract of employment would be outside the purview of 'service' as defined in Section 2(42) of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019

Service rendered at a hospital/nursing home where charges are required to be paid by some patients while poor patients are treated free of charge is completely excluded from the definition of 'service' in Section 2(42) of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 even for the paying patients