Case have been filed days after the person died allegedly due to medical negligence.
Police today initiated the investigation into the death of Sanjay Roy following a complaint lodged by his wife, days after Roy died due to alleged medical negligence by a private hospital here.
We have asked the hospital authorities to submit the documents related to his treatment. We will also talk to the doctors who were treating Roy," a senior police officer of Phoolbagan PS said. Meanwhile, a six member probe team was constituted by the state health department to investigate the alleged role of the private hospital.
Police sources said that the hospital has been charged with sections 304A (causing death by negligence), 34 (Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) and 384 (extortion), under the IPC. “Among the names of the doctors only the name of Dr Shyamal Sarkar has been mentioned by Ruby and he might be called for an interrogation soon,” said a senior police official. He also said that other staff members including those of the accounts and billing department, might also be included later. Procedure to send a notice to the hospital had been started.
Roy had met with an accident on February 16 and had been admitted to the hospital with injuries on his chest and stomach. His family members said that he was kept under ventilation and doctors said he was almost out of danger. The bill escalated to over Rs 7 lakh till February 23 his family members decided they would shift him to the state-run SSKM hospital, owing to financial constraints. Roy was taken to SSKM at about 9.30 pm on where he died after sometime.
Today Roy's family also paid the pending amount to the hospital. After Roy’s death, senior TMC leader and former minister Madan Mitra had called up Apollo hospital COO Rana Dasgupta and said that the amount paid by the family till then, that is, Rs 4.33 lakh out of the total bill of Rs 7.23 lakh should be refunded to the family. Today, however, Ruby said that they did not want the money from the hospital. “I don’t want their money. I want justice. They had experimented with my husband’s life. Our friends and relatives have contributed money and we have collected enough fund to pay the balance amount. Today we will pay it and take away our fixed deposit certificate which we had to mortgage to the hospital as security when we could not come up with the astronomical sum of the bill amount,” said Ruby. She added that if the hospital had released him an hour earlier, her husband would have lived.
They came over at 3 pm at the hospital and after an argument with hospital authorities for about 45 minutes when they refused to take the money, Ruby finally managed to pay a cheque of the balance Rs 2,90,640. After coming out of the hospital she put in a fresh allegation against the hospital that they tried to make her sign a paper fraudulently. “Taking advantage of my mental condition, they wanted me to sign a paper where, along with the amount we paid, they had also written that we had accepted am amount of Rs 4.5 lakh from the hospital. One of my family members who read the paper noticed and opposed it. The police officer of Phoolbagan Police Station who had accompanied us had seized that paper,” Ruby added.
Later, she was taken to Phoolbagan PS where her statement was recorded. The importance paid to the case can be noticed because additional officer in-charge, of Phoolbagan PS, Suman Naskar, has been made the investigation officer of the case.
Family members of Roy, who was admitted to the hospital on February 16 after a road accident, have alleged that the hospital authorities refused to release him unless dues were settled and the delay to shift him caused his death. The team constituted will be headed by the head of the general medicine department, Calcutta National Medical College and hospital, Partho Pratim Mukherjee, head of cardiac anaesthesia, NRS Medical College, Shampa Dutta, head of radiology, Calcutta Medical College. It also includes Ashok Bhadra, head of surgery at RG Kar Medical college, Gautam Ghosh, head of gastroenterology at Calcutta medical College, Jayanta Dasgupta and special secretary of the health department Subir Chatterjee.
With PTI inputs
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