The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) was fined on Monday by the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) after it was found that at the civic-run Shatabdi Hospital, ECG was carried out on patients by “ward boys”.

Observing that the commission “never dreamt of such a situation prevailing in the hospital run by one of the richest municipal corporations in the country”, SHRC chairperson Justice AM Badar directed the BMC to pay Rs 12 lakh as compensation to Maharashtra State Legal Services Authorities (MSLSA).

The MSLSA provides free legal services to weaker sections of the society.

A complaint regarding the matter was filed to SHRC by a patient stating that at the Shatabdi Hospital run by the municipal corporation, sanitation workers were carrying out ECG on patients before surgery.

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