The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission on Thursday asked a nursing home in Uttarpara to pay Rs 9 lakh as compensation to the family of a dead patient.
“A 26-year-old woman who had dengue before Durga Puja (last year) was admitted to Arogya Niketan Nursing home, Uttarpara...we ultimately hold that there was medical negligence on part of the hospital. They (the hospital) are to give Rs 9 lakh as compensation,” said retired judge Ashim Banerjee, chairperson of the commission.
The case was heard earlier but the commission gave the order on Thursday. The members of the commission had submitted a written report.
Banerjee said that the woman was treated in the hospital from September 28 to October 2. “Her platelet count came down abruptly and she was taken to a private hospital in Kolkata on October 3, where she died within a few hours,” said Banerjee.
“There was an interpolation in the platelet records with a pen. The explanation that the hospital provided was that the machine and manual counts were different and so a hospital employee had made corrections with a pen, without any initial.”
“We are not aware of it. Let the order come,” said Mayank Saxena, director, Arogya Niketan Nursing Home.
CBI raids in school jobs scam
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday searched multiple locations in parts of New Town, Murshidabad and Birbhum in connection with its ongoing probe into alleged recruitment irregularities in Bengal.
In Murshidabad, a team visited the house of Jiban Krishna Saha, a Trinamul Congress MLA from Bardhaman, and searched the premises, including a garden.
An officer said the team was looking for documents and a mobile phone that was apparently thrown away in the garden after the team’s arrival.
A separate team visited an under-construction site in New Town to check the details of those who have invested in properties there.
Homemaker found dead in Ultadanga
A 49-year-old homemaker was found dead with alleged ligature marks on her throat in her Ultadanga house on Friday morning.
Sampa Chatterjee, a resident of 4B Deb Narayan Das Lane, was found dead on her bed, police said. “Soumen Das, brother of Sampa Chatterjee, reported about the suspicious death of his sister at her home in Ultadanga,” said joint commissioner (crime) Sankha Subhra Chakrabarty.
The police have detained husband Amit Chatterjee, 48, who runs a business of medical equipment. “We found several contradictions in his statements,” said an officer.