Martin to update the law to stop struck-off doctors treating seriously ill

THE Government must update the law to ensure that struck-off doctors cannot offer dubious alternative treatments to patients who are seriously ill.

Health Minister Micheál Martin is considering how patients can be best protected after meeting relatives whose loved ones suffered after undergoing an alternative treatment for cancer at the East Clinic in Killaloe, Co Clare.

Some patients who received the therapy have since died and others claim it made their condition worse.