NEW DELHI, OCT 4: The expert committee constituted by Union Health Ministry to look into the treatment of the late Union Minister P R Kumaramangalam at Apollo Hospital, has recommended a mandatory re-registration of all medical practitioners every five years with Medical Council of India. The move, could be used as a punitive action against doctors failing to treat patients correctly.Another recommendation of the committee is to make it mandatory for all hospitals and nursing homes in the country to provide medical reports of a patient to his relatives whenever demanded. This has apparently been done in view of reported dithering by AIIMS officials in providing Kumaramangalam's medical reports to to his wife, Kitty.With a view to check mushrooming growth of nursing homes - some of which don't have even basic amenities and infrastructure - the committee has urged the Centre to formulate a minimum standard of infrastructure and manpower for all hospitals and nursing homes - both Government and private.The committee headed by Medical Superintendent of Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Dr C P Singh, had submitted its report to Union Health Minister Dr C P Thakur last month. The Health Minister is likely to make the report public on Wednesday.The committee has indicted doctors at Apollo Hospital for ``failing to diagnose Kumaramangalam's ailment correctly and pursuing a wrong line of treatment''. It concluded that Kumaramangalam was not suffering from either malaria or pneumonia - for which he was treated at Apollo when admitted there on April 14- but from myeloid leukaemia.
