Kolkata: FIR against Fortis hospital for Using Expired Test Kit

KOLKATA: Alleging medical negligence, a family of patient recently filed a complaint at the Anandapur police station against Fortis hospital for using expired kit for an H1N1 test on a 64 year old patient suffering from respiratory distress. The police has registered the said FIR.

The case relates to patient who was admitted to Fortis Hospital at Anandapur on June 28 with complaints of respiratory distress and required oxygen support.

The patient's family was informed that the patient needed to undergo H1N1 test, for which they had already collected his swab using a kit. Since Fortis did not have a facility for the said test, the patient's daughter was asked to get the test done from Peerless Hospital . She deposited Rs 6,600 for the test at Peerless.

However, when she went to the collect the test reports, the technicians informed her that the test could not be performed as the kit was expired. Narrating the incident, she told TOI, "When I went to the biochemist laboratory at Peerless to collect the report, the technicians told me the test could not be done since the kit was invalid. It had, in fact, expired in June 2016. I rushed back to Fortis immediately with the kit and demanded an explanation," said Shreya Banerjee, the patient's daughter.