Doctors directed to apologise to deceased patient's kin for not responding to emergency calls
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Kolkata: Two doctors along with another official attached to the Medica Superspeciality Hospital have been directed by the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC) to submit a formal apology letter to the kin of an elderly patient who had to be rushed to the facility within hours of being discharged.
The patient's party claimed that they tried to contact both the doctors at the time of returning home in the ambulance fearing for the life of the patient. However, none of them responded.
The complainant alleged that he had admitted his wife at Medica Superspecialty Hospital in September last year. The patient had Parkinson's disease along with other comorbidities. She was discharged after being declared "hemodynamically stable" on October 6, noted retired judge Ashim Banerjee, the commission's chairperson.
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