Healthworld Hospitals in Durgapur has to pay Rs 50,000 as compensation to a person who has said the hospital treated him for cardiac ailments though he had been admitted with abdominal pain, the state health regulatory commission said on Wednesday.

At a hearing held on Wednesday, the commission asked AMRI Salt Lake to return Rs 91,000 to a patient’s family and CMRI to pay a patient Rs 25,000 as compensation.

“Krishna Kumar Gupta, 60, was admitted to Healthworld Hospitals in December last year. He said he had abdominal pain but the hospital treated him for cardiac ailments,” Ashim Kumar Banerjee, retired judge and chairperson of the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission, said on Wednesday. “He was asked to do an angiogram and an ECG. The hospital did an USG of the abdomen later.”

The hospital told the commission that it had gone by the report of an USG Gupta had done at another place, Banerjee said. “But the hospital should have done an USG on its own.”

Gupta got himself discharged from the hospital and was detected with a gallbladder ailment when he visited a hospital in Hyderabad.

“He was treated for the ailment and is doing well now. We have asked the hospital to pay Rs 50,000 to the man as compensation,” said Banerjee.

Probir Mukherjee, the hospital’s executive director, said: “I cannot comment as we are still to receive a copy of the order.”

AMRI Salt Lake was asked to return Rs 91,000 to the family of a woman who had to undergo corrective surgery at the hospital following problems after a tumour surgery at the same hospital. The woman later died.

“The first surgery cost Rs 2.5 lakh and the corrective surgery Rs 3.5 lakh. Though most of the cost was recovered from insurance, the patient’s family had to pay Rs 91,000 for both surgeries,” Banerjee said. “We felt the hospital had a moral responsibility in this case as the woman had to undergo corrective surgery and that cost more. So, we asked the hospital to return Rs 91,000.”

The hospital refused to comment.

CMRI was asked to compensate a 23-year-old woman who suffered leg burns while undergoing hip surgery. “She suffered an acetabular fracture. But the burns were detected on the side that did not need surgery. We have asked the hospital to give Rs 25,000 to the woman as compensation,” Banerjee said.

A CMRI official said the hospital was still to receive a copy of the order. “We can comment on the next course of action after receiving a copy of the order.”