West Bengal state govt. is not satisfied by the answer of Apollo hospital after the incident of the death of a patient in the hospital. The matter has already discussed with CM of West Bengal, Mamta Banerjee, and she said that if required, FIR will be registered in police station against this type of medical negligence.
The hospital allegedly refused to allow the transfer of the patient Sanjay Roy to SSKM govt hospital for treatment unless all dues were settled. Sanjay Roy, 30 years, was admitted to Apollo hospital for last one week for his critical injuries after met a road accident. After reaching the treatment cost up to 8 lakh, the family of the patient decided to shift him to a government hospital SSKM hospital. His family managed to get a bed in that hospital with the help of a Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee. After that, they requested Apollo hospital to release him, but Apollo refused to release him because the total treatment bill was not settled.
His family paid 60% of the bill and assured Apollo to pay the remaining amount but they refused. Ultimately the family arranged the money from a friend, relatives, but it was too late. At that time the condition of Sanjay Roy had deteriorated. After he was taken to SSKM hospital, he died on Friday, 24th Feb 2017. Even the family has submitted all the fixed deposit documents to the hospital, but they could not sum up the 8 lacks amount.
Appllo hospital authorities took the fixed deposit documents from the family but they claimed that they did not demand it. Hospital authority is saying that they also accepted the cheque from the family. “Usually don’t accept the cheque but on the humanitarian ground we accepted it,” said Hospital Chief Operating Officer, Jay Bose. According to Jay Bose, they arranged their ambulance to shift the patient to SSKM govt. hospital. They also said treatment never stopped. Later hospital authority was ready to refund the amount the family paid for Sanjay Roy’s treatment.
His friend Prabir Mukherjee, accused the Apollo hospital of unethical practices. “If the patient is not getting better, the hospital should inform us but never they informed us about the condition and what was wrong with Sanjay. They left him for 4 hours for CT scan. After that, they put him on a ventilator, after saying that the report of CT scan is OK. Actually, they just wanted to increase the bill amount. He died only because of the negligence of doctors” he alleged.
The present case attracted the attention of west Bengal government. It ordered Apollo to send a detail report on the matter. Later, popular TMC leader Madan Mitra arrived at SSKM govt. hospital to meet the family of Sanjay Roy and called up the Apollo hospital authority and admonished them. He demanded to refund the money to the family. After a study of the report thoroughly CM Mamta Banerjee is not satisfied and decided to meet up again to discuss with the matter and said in a press conference on 25th Feb, Friday that FIR will be registered against Apollo, if required.
