According to the family of the patient from Tamluk, she was admitted to a nursing home in Park Circus, where she had tested Covid positive, last week. The nursing home had reportedly asked the family to shift the elderly lady to a Covid hospital on Monday night. She was taken to Desun Hospital, which had allegedly demanded Rs 3 lakh as an advance. The woman died in the ambulance, waiting for treatment. The patient\u2019s family has alleged that the hospital refused to admit the patient despite depositing Rs 80,000 as advance. <\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nDesun Hospital had been partly acquired by the state government as its Covid facility. But the hospital has been allowed to treat private patients in some beds. The hospital has refuted the charge, claiming that the doctors had tried giving CPR to the patient but she could not be revived.
\u201cI came to know about this incident from news reports. It could be true or otherwise. So we have taken up the case suo motu. I have asked my office to find the versions of the two hospitals,\u201d said Justice Ashim Kumar Banerjee, chairman of WBCERC. \u201cThis is the first time the commission has taken up a case suo motu. We will try to hear the case on August 19. We had earlier got two other complaints on WhatsApp,\u201d he added.
The commission has also intervened in the case of a doctor who died in another private hospital where the treatment bill amounted to a little above Rs 18 lakhs. \u201cWhen we came to know about this from social media, we requested the hospital to review the bill and the hospital has agreed to look into it,\u201d added Banerjee. <\/div>\n