kolkata the west bengal clinical establishment regulatory commission has asked three hospitals to pay compensation to the family of a deceased covid patient two of them for refusing to admit the patient and the third one for not providing icu treatment even though he was admitted in the icu the 78yearold rishra resident had died in a fourth hospitalalok nath banerjee a copd patient with other comorbid condition was brought to fortis hospital on july 3 with covid symptoms after stabilising the patient doctors at the hospital said the patient needed icu care and regretted that no icu bed was vacant according to the complaint lodged by enakshi mukherjee the deceaseds daughter they got in touch with all asia medical institute aami in gariahat she claimed that the hospital offered an icu bed but refused admission on arrival the patient was then taken to fleming nursing home where the patient allegedly was not given icu care within twothree hours the family shifted him to an ekbalpore nursing home where he died four days later the commission has directed fortis to pay rs 1 lakh and aami and fleming to pay rs 50000 each to the family if the patients family does not accept the amount the commission will give it to the cms covid relief fund said justice ashim kumar banerjeeaccording to a statement issued by arafat faisal head medical service of fortis hospital anandapur the patient was stabilised in the emergency unit and the hospital even arranged for an ambulance when the family said they had found a bed in another hospital while we respect the judgment we want to state that we have no control over availability of bed in other hospitals said faisalwe have no record of such patient being asked to bring to our hospital or being refused admission we are waiting for a copy of the judgment after which we would appeal to the commission for a review said aami director harshvardhan agarwalcalls to fleming nursing home went unansweredin other judgment the commission has asked medica superspecialty hospital to refund rs 40000 to the family of a patient whose bill amounted to rs 18 lakh for threeday admission the hospital said it would carry out the commissions directives the commission has also intervened in a case of a 52yearold patient from diamond harbour who was admitted at medica for 77 days the hospital had to discharge the patient with rs 19 lakh dues the patients family has complained to the commission that the hospital was threatening them a claim denied by the hospital