WBCERC directs hospital to pay Rs 1 lakh compensation, forwards case to Medical council

West Bengal: The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission has directed a private hospital of Parkcircus to pay the sum of Rs 1 lakh as compensation to a patient's family as an interim directive. Besides, the commission has forwarded this case to the West Bengal Medical Council and has decided to take the final call based on its verdict.

This came in the wake of a complaint with the States Regulatory commission by a patient's kin who previously received treatment in the hospital and later died in another hospital.

The petitioners stated that the patient, an 81-year-old resident of Shreerampore was suffering from several age-related problems and comorbidities, hence he was admitted to the neuroscience speciality hospital from another private hospital on January 13th.

Times of India reports that the family, in the petition, alleged that the hospital kept the patient in the emergency without any proper warm covers and only with a white sheet which resulted in the patients being affected with pneumonia. Moreover, the petitioner claimed that during extubation the patient also suffered vessel injury and after that, his family shifted the patient to a local nursing Home in Shreerampore after 7 days where he eventually passed away.