MBBS with IGNOU PGDCC performing Echo: Hospital fined Rs 20 lakh
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West Bengal: BM Birla Heart Research Centre (BMBHRC) has been directed by the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission to pay Rs 20 lakh compensation to the family of a patient who died during treatment after concluding that two employees including one doctor at BM Birla Heart Research Centre in Alipore were not qualified to conduct and report echocardiography.
The case pertains to a female patient, known hypertensive who had come to the hospital with complaints of chest pain and shortness of breath. After 4 days of treatment she was shifted to Calcutta Medical Research Institute, where she died. Following her death, her family filed a complaint of negligence against the hospital with the commission.
After going through all the submissions made by the complainant and the hospitals as well as the case files of the patient, the commission observed a number of discrepancies in the submissions made by the hospital to the commission and the case file and discharge summary of the patient.
Besides this, the complainant had alleged that no echo screening report was given to them, whereas the hospital submitted an echo report dated 3rd May, 2017, whereby an echo was done by one Dr Giri who noted his findings and recorded his opinion and impression thereon. His authentication stated him as the " Head of Non-invasive department. Another echo screening report, dated 7th May 2017, was given, where the commission found that the screening was done on a portable machine and the findings were recorded and interpreted with impression by one Ms Chaitali, who was the Echocardiography Technician at the hospital.
The case pertains to a female patient, known hypertensive who had come to the hospital with complaints of chest pain and shortness of breath. After 4 days of treatment she was shifted to Calcutta Medical Research Institute, where she died. Following her death, her family filed a complaint of negligence against the hospital with the commission.
After going through all the submissions made by the complainant and the hospitals as well as the case files of the patient, the commission observed a number of discrepancies in the submissions made by the hospital to the commission and the case file and discharge summary of the patient.
Besides this, the complainant had alleged that no echo screening report was given to them, whereas the hospital submitted an echo report dated 3rd May, 2017, whereby an echo was done by one Dr Giri who noted his findings and recorded his opinion and impression thereon. His authentication stated him as the " Head of Non-invasive department. Another echo screening report, dated 7th May 2017, was given, where the commission found that the screening was done on a portable machine and the findings were recorded and interpreted with impression by one Ms Chaitali, who was the Echocardiography Technician at the hospital.
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