09-07-2025
Hospital fined 1L for treatment refusal in Kolkata
Kolkata: West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission fined a private hospital Rs 1 lakh for failing to explain why a doctor refused to treat an ICU patient.
Sanjoy Ghosh was admitted to Woodlands Hospital in April.
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He was allegedly left unattended at the emergency for three hours. After his ICU admission, Sunil Baran Ray, a consultant at the hospital, refused to continue treatment.
Another doctor, in charge of the ICU, misbehaved with them, Ghosh's family alleged.
WBCERC on Wednesday said Woodlands ws asked to conduct an inquiry into both incidents. "We are not satisfied with the explanation offered by the hospital on why the doctor refused to treat the patient.
This is unacceptable and unethical. Woodlands tried to evade responsibility," said WBCERC chairperson Justice Ashim Kumar Banerjee. He added that even after the doctor refused to treat the patient, the hospital took no action or made any effort to seek an explanation from the doctor.
He said the allegation of misbehaviour has not been proved. A senior Woodlands Hospital official said: "According to the patient's clinical requirement, the treating consultant wanted to transfer him under the care of a nephrologist Woodlands would like to reiterate that since the patient was under joint admission, there was no question of discontinuation of treatment."
