After a second review of the functioning of the Punjab Cancer Rahat Kosh Scheme, at least two more hospitals are to be removed from the list of approved hospitals because of deficient services. At least 19 of the 36 hospitals approved earlier were de-listed in April this year. At the same time, a review team of the Tata Memorial Cancer Institute, Mumbai, is learnt to have once again recommended that Dayanand Medical College (DMC), Ludhiana, be put back on the list of approved hospitals.The team is relooking into the working of the ambitious project. Refusing to comment on the report findings, Vinnie Mahajan, Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, said the recommendations had been sent to the Chief Minister’s office. “We are carrying out a check on the facilities and services available at the empanelled hospitals. Empanelment had been accorded to a majority of the applicant hospitals, 36 in all. A rate contract on cancer-specific medicines is being worked out with the help of the Tata Institute”. The review committee comprised two experts from the Mumbai hospital and the principals of Government Medical College and Hospitals in Amritsar and Patiala. The Thakur committee earlier had recommended that all ill-equipped hospitals be delisted. As many as 19 hospitals, including the DMC, Ludhiana, were struck off the list for not having infrastructure and medicare facilities as envisaged under the scheme. The empanelled hospitals are Government Medical College, Chandigarh, PGIMER, Chandigarh, Grecian Super Specialty Hospital, Ajitgarh, lndus Super Speciality Hospital, Ajitgarh, Behgal Hospital, Ajitgarh, Max Health Care, Ajitgarh, Patel Hospital, Jalandhar, Governemnt Medical College, Amritsar, Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Amritsar, Oswal Hospital, Ludhiana, Max Hospital, Bathinda, Adesh Charitable Cancer Hospital, Muktsar, Government Medical College, Patiala, Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, GGSGMC, Faridkot, AIIMS, New Delhi, and Acharya Tulsi Dass, Bikaner. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had announced the Cancer Rahat Kosh Scheme in June 2011 for poor patients who did not have an insurance cover.