The state clinical establishment regulatory commission on Monday asked Megacity in Duttapukur, North 24-Parganas, and Specialists’ Corner in Salkia, Howrah, to pay Rs 2 lakh each as interim compensation to families of patients who passed away at the nursing homes. The panel found the nursing homes negligent.
Megacity did not take necessary steps when a 25-year-old woman’s condition was deteriorating, retired judge Ashim Banerjee, the commission’s chairperson, said at a news conference on Monday.
The woman eventually passed away. The hospital said during Monday’s hearing that they had alerted the doctor who was treating the woman, but he did not turn up.
The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission has asked a hospital in south Calcutta to give Rs 50,000 as compensation to a patient who was overbilled during his Covid treatment.
Chinmoy Chakraborty had stayed at Kasturi Das Memorial Superspeciality Hospital in Santoshpur for 15 days.
“We have given a discount of Rs 50,000 to the patient. We found that the bed charges were very high. He was in a triple-sharing bed and charged Rs 9,000,” retired judge Ashim Banerjee, the chairman of the commission, said on Monday after the hearing.
There was separate billing for resident medical officer, sanitisation and biomedical waste disposal. “The patient was billed Rs 3.41 lakh,” Banerjee said.
Refund and damages order for 2 Calcutta hospitals The commission also asked Bandhan Hospital in Nadia’s Krishnagar to pay Rs 3 lakh as compensation to the family of a man who was admitted there
The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission on Thursday asked AMRI Hospitals Dhakuria to refund Rs 3.19 lakh to the family of a man who was admitted to the hospital with Covid.
The hospital had billed the patient Rs 9.34 lakh for a stay of 11 days.
The commission also asked Bandhan Hospital in Nadia’s Krishnagar to pay Rs 3 lakh as compensation to the family of a man who was admitted there after meeting with a road accident.
Commission order to six hospitals West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission asked hospitals to pay compensation to patients
The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission on Thursday ordered several private hospitals to pay compensation to patients or their families.
Woodlands Hospital was asked to pay Rs 50,000 to a patient’s family for putting pressure on them to shift the patient, who was critically ill and on ventilation, to another hospital after the person tested positive for Covid, retired judge Ashim Banerjee, the chairperson of the commission, said.
The hospital argued they were not treating Covid patients in June, when this incident happened. But the commission said that was no excuse for the hospital to ask the family to shift the patient.
All advisories issued so far by the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission for treatment of Covid-19 patients will now be applicable to patients admitted in private hospitals with other illnesses, too, the commission’s chairperson said on Wednesday.
Some of the advisories include providing discounts over the maximum retail price (MRP) of consumables and medicines and offering patients a cheaper version of a medicine if the doctor does not prescribe a specific brand.
The commission also fixed the bed charge a hospital can bill on the day a patient is discharged. The decisions were taken at a meeting of the members of the commission at Nandan on Tuesday afternoon.