Miffed over a section of party leaders rebuking private hospitals for allegedly misbehaving with patients, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today asked party leaders not to interfere.
"Today our party supremo expressed her displeasure over a section of party leaders going overboard while dealing with complaints against private hospitals. She has asked party leaders not to do so and said that the government is well equipped to take steps if there are complaints against any private hospital," a senior TMC leader said on condition of anonymity.
Banerjee's displeasure comes in the backdrop of Trinamool Congress leader and former minister Madan Mitra rebuking a top official of a private multi super specialty hospital in the city after a patient died and his family members charged it with exorbitant billing.
The hospital had also allegedly refused to release the patient, who was critically injured in a road accident, without settling of dues despite chief minister Mamata Banerjee's warning against such practice.
The chief minister had held meetings last week with representatives of private hospitals and nursing homes located in and around the city in a bid to redress frequent complaints of inflated bills, forced admission in ICUs, negligence in treatment and others.
Banerjee had announced setting up the West Bengal Health Regulatory Commission, for which a bill is due to be tabled on March 3, to monitor complaints of inflated billing by private health facilities while severely criticising their wayward functioning.
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