Medical panel orders hospital to pay Rs 1 lakh

Medical panel orders hospital to pay Rs 1 lakh

TNN | Sep 17, 2020, 04.26 AM IST

KOLKATA: In an interim order, the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC) has directed a private hospital in Park Circus to pay a compensation of Rs 1 lakh to the family of an 81-year-old patient who had died later in another hospital.

The patient from Serampore, suffering from various age related ailments, was referred to the neuroscience specialty hospital from another private hospital on January 13. The family alleged the patient had been kept in the emergency for six hours with only a white sheet, due to which he had developed pneumonia. They also complained that the patient also suffered vessel injury during extubation.The octogenarian was shifted later to a local nursing home in Serampore after seven days, where he died later.

“While we have forwarded the case of medical negligence to the West Bengal Medical Council, we have asked the hospital to pay a compensation of Rs 1 lakh as an interim directive. We have asked the patient party to come back to us with the medical council’s verdict, after which we will take the final call,” said justice (retired) Ashim Kumar Banerjee, chairman WBCERC. The commission also asked a nursing home in Entally to refund Rs 10,000 to the parents of an infant who was treated in the hospital in January for 10 days.