PESHAWAR, March 25: The parliamentary committee on the institution-based practice has sent its recommendations to the provincial government, suggesting abolition of the practice and formation of a regulatory body to check malpractice at private clinics.

The 11-member committee met here on Tuesday with its chairman Anwar Kamal Khan Marwat in the chair to finalize the recommendations.

The committee proposed the abolition of the IBP. The practice had started in the public sector hospitals in March last year to be replaced by a regulatory body to regulate the health affairs in the private sector.

The regulatory body would be vested with powers to initiate action against doctors indulging in unethical practices, he said.

The chairman said the committee had proposed to the government to register private clinics and investigation centres afresh and allow only qualified pathologists and radiologists to carry out blood investigations at an affordable cost. The streamlining of private hospitals had also been recommended, he said.

The recommendations included reduction in operation and investigation charges aimed at discouraging unqualified people in the practice.

He said owing to allegations of commission and kickbacks, it had been recommended that the consultation fee of doctors should be brought down. No technician would be allowed to work in operation theatres and investigative outlets, suggested the committee.

It was also recommended that consultant doctors should do the evening OPD on a rotation basis, where they would examine patients on Rs5 OPD slips.