Nursing home asked to pay Rs 37 lakhs for medical negligence

Pix: Scenes from ‘Satru.’ The film had been directed by Anjan Chowdhury, who died after ‘medical negligence’.

16 August, Kolkata: The consumer court has asked a nursing home authorities to pay Rs 37 lakh as compensation to the family of Anjan Chowdhury, the Bengali film director who died due to medical negligence three years ago.
The court found that there was a medical negligence by the nursing home. The nursing home authorities conducted a bypass surgery despite his poor health condition.
The film director was admitted to the hospital on 1 February 2007 with chest pain.
After he died his family members lodged a complaint with the police and subsequently moved the consumer court.
Ashok Nath Mukherjee lawyer of the family members of Chowdhury said they will also lodge complaint with the West Bengal Medical Council against the doctors who had conducted the surgery. Earlier nursing home authorities said there was no medical negligence of their part. They will file an appeal challenging the decision.

11 districts declared as drought-hit

Aug 16, Kolkata: The state government today declared 11 districts as drought-hit and allocated Rs 50 crore to distribute among the affected people.
State finance minister Asim Dasgupta, after attending a high-level meeting, said the situation caused by the insufficient rainfall and state would soon communicate with union agricultural minister Sharad Pawar in this regard. State would also appeal
to the Centre to study the situation.
He also apprehend that there are severe damage of the kharif crop in several districts following 30 percent rainfall.
State government however ruled out any food scarcity in the affected districts. The dought-hit districts are Purulia, Bankura, Murshidabad, Birbhum, Burdwan (known as the rice-bowl of West Bengal), Hooghly, North and South 24 Parganas, West Midnapore, Nadia and Malda.