THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED FROM THE PHYSICIAN REGISTER SECTION OF THE WEBSITE OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF ONTARIO (WWW.CPSO.ON.CA) AS OF THE DATE AND TIME NOTED BELOW
19/07/25 05:37:40 AM

General Information

Former Name: No Former Name
Medical School: Osmania University, 1965
Gender: Man
Languages Spoken: ENGLISH, FRENCH, HINDI, SPANISH, TELUGU, URDU

Practice Information

Primary Business Location: Address not Available
Business Email: No Information Available
Phone: No Information Available
Fax: No Information Available

Specialties

SPECIALTY ISSUED ON CERTIFYING BODY
Pediatrics
Effective: 08 Nov 1973
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
SPECIALTY: Pediatrics
ISSUED ON: Effective: Nov 08 1973
CERTIFYING BODY: Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

Medical Records Location

Instructions/Address: Records Management Ltd
1 High Meadow Pl Unit 13
North York, ON M9L 0A3

Phone: 1-800-775-0093
Date Received: 20 Dec 2019

Hospital Privileges

No information available

Professional Corporation Information

Corporation Name: Kunwar Singh Medicine Professional Corporation
Certificate of Authorization Status: Inactive End Date: 07 May 2020

General Information

Former Name: No Former Name
Gender: Man
Languages Spoken: ENGLISH, FRENCH, HINDI, SPANISH, TELUGU, URDU
Medical School: Osmania University, 1965

Practice Information

Primary Business Location: Address not Available
Business Email: No Information Available
Phone: No Information Available
Fax: No Information Available

Specialties

SPECIALTY ISSUED ON CERTIFYING BODY
Pediatrics
Effective: 08 Nov 1973
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
SPECIALTY: Pediatrics
ISSUED ON: Effective: Nov 08 1973
CERTIFYING BODY: Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

Medical Records Location

Instructions/Address: Records Management Ltd
1 High Meadow Pl Unit 13
North York, ON M9L 0A3

Phone: 1-800-775-0093
Date Received: 20 Dec 2019

Hospital Privileges

No information available

Professional Corporation Information

Corporation Name: Kunwar Singh Medicine Professional Corporation
Certificate of Authorization Status: Inactive End Date: 07 May 2020

Practice Conditions

This physician is inactive (Expired, Resigned, Suspended, Revoked, or Deceased) and is not permitted to practise medicine.
This physician is inactive (Expired, Resigned, Suspended, Revoked, or Deceased) and is not permitted to practise medicine.

Current Tribunal Proceedings

No information available

Past Tribunal Proceedings (3)

Date of Decision: 11 May 2020
Summary of Decision:
On May 11, 2020, on the basis of an Agreed Statement of Facts on Liability and Admission, the Discipline Committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (“the College”)found that Dr. Kunwar Raj Singh (“Dr. Singh”) committed an act of professional misconduct, in that in that he engaged in an act or omission relevant to the practice of medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional.

BACKGROUND

The facts set out in the Agreed Statement of Facts on Liability and Admission included the following:

Dr. Singh is a 78 year-old physician who received his certificate of registration authorizing independent practice from the College on December 29, 1971. He obtained a RCPSC certification in paediatrics in November 1973. Dr. Singh resigned his membership with the College effective January 1, 2020. At all relevant times, Dr. Singh practised paediatrics at a medical clinic at 483 East Street North in Sarnia, Ontario.

January 14, 2013 undertaking to the College
 
On January 14, 2013, Dr. Singh entered into an undertaking with the College. This undertaking superseded and replaced a prior undertaking that Dr. Singh had entered on August 20, 2009. Among other specified terms, the January 14, 2013, undertaking prohibited Dr. Singh from having in-person professional encounters with female patients, or female parents or caregivers of patients, except in the presence of a female chaperone approved by the College (the “Practice Monitor”). Dr. Singh was required to ensure that the Practice Monitor initialed each patient chart for which she was present.

The undertaking also required Dr. Singh to place signs in clearly visible locations in all waiting rooms and examination rooms which stated: “Dr. Singh will only see female patients and female parents/caregivers of patients in the presence of another registered health professional.” Patient DD was a female patient of Dr. Singh between approximately March 2018 and October 2018. Patient DD saw Dr. Singh on seven separate occasions for medical appointments at his clinic at 483 East Street North in Sarnia. Patient DD’s Mother and Father brought Patient DD to all her appointments with Dr. Singh and both parents were present in the examination room during each appointment. During a number of these appointments, Dr. Singh’s Practice Monitor was not present in the examination room for the entirety of Patient DD’s appointments. Patient DD’s parents did not have any concerns in respect of Dr. Singh’s care and treatment of Patient DD.

On December 6, 2018, a Compliance Monitor of the College attended at Dr. Singh’s office to conduct a compliance visit. During the visit, Dr. Singh stated that two or three times a year, he conducted examinations of patients with hemangiomas in Room 4. Dr. Singh stated that the required signage was never posted in Room 4 because he rarely used the room for examinations of patients, including Patient DD.

On May 3, 2019, the Compliance Monitor conducted a further compliance visit at Dr. Singh’s office. The Compliance Monitor observed that the required sign was now posted in Room 4, unlike at the previous visit.

On March 20, 2018, Compliance Monitors of the College attended Dr. Singh’s office to conduct a compliance visit. During the compliance visit, the Compliance Monitors found that on two different dates for two different patients, the Practice Monitor had not signed the patients’ charts. The log sheets for both patients’ appointments were initialed by the Practice Monitor and were faxed to the College prior to the Compliance Monitor’s visit.

The Committee also received an Agreed Statement of Facts Regarding Penalty which included the following facts:

Undertaking to resign and never apply or reapply
 
On December 20, 2019, Dr. Singh entered into an undertaking to the College whereby he agreed to resign from the College, effective January 1, 2020, and never apply or re-apply for registration as a physician in Ontario or any other jurisdiction. This undertaking arose after the College conducted investigations into whether Dr. Singh sexually abused patients in approximately the 1970’s and 1980’s in his paediatric practice.

Discipline Committee History

In November 1991, the Discipline Committee found that Dr. Singh engaged in professional misconduct in that he was guilty of an offence relevant to his suitability to practice, failed to maintain the standard of practice of the profession, and engaged in disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional conduct. The Discipline Committee ordered a suspension of Dr. Singh’s licence to practise medicine for two years, the first six months commenced on a date fixed by the Registrar after the Order became final, and the remaining 18 months of the suspension were suspended subject to specified terms in the Order. The Committee also ordered a reprimand and that the reprimand be recorded on the Register.

In August 1994, the Discipline Committee found that Dr. Singh engaged in professional misconduct in that he engaged in disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional conduct.

The Discipline Committee ordered a six-month suspension of Dr. Singh’s certificate of registration, the final three months of the suspension to be suspended if Dr. Singh completed a course in medical ethics. The Committee also ordered a reprimand and that the reprimand be recorded on the Register.

Additional facts

On November 1, 2019, Dr. Singh’s Practice Monitor was interviewed by College representatives. She stated that although she was not always present in the examination room during Patient DD’s appointments, she was either standing in the hallway immediately outside the examination room or had left the room briefly, at Dr. Singh’s request, to retrieve documents requested by him.

DISPOSITION
 
The Discipline Committee ordered:
 
- Dr. Singh to attend before the panel to be reprimanded
- Dr. Singh to pay costs to the College in the amount of $6,000.00 within 30 days of the date of the Order.

DECISION AND REASONS
 
On July 6, 2020, the Committee released its full decision and reasons in this matter. The Decision and Reasons are available for review on the College’s website.
 
Reasons for Decision: Download Full Decision (PDF)
Hearing Date(s): May 11, 2020 at 1:30 p.m. Reprimand: August 27, 2020 at 10:30 a.m.
Date of Decision: 26 Aug 1994
Summary of Decision:
In August 1994, the Discipline Committee found Dr. Kunwar Raj Singh guilty of professional misconduct, as defined in s. 27(32) of Ontario Regulation 448/80, as amended, in that he engaged in conduct or an act relevant to the practice of medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional. Consequently, the Committee ordered that he be reprimanded, with the fact of the reprimand to be recorded on the Register. The Committee also ruled that Dr. Singh's licence to practice be suspended for a period of six months, with the last three months of the suspension to be themselves suspended provided that he pursued and completed, at the direction of, and to the satisfaction of the Registrar, a course of study in medical ethics.
Reasons for Decision: Download Full Decision (PDF)
Appeal: Appeal Dismissed
Appeal Decision Date: 1996-10-01
Hearing Date(s): Aug 25, 1994
Date of Decision: 27 Nov 1991
Summary of Decision:
In November 1991, the Discipline Committee found Dr. Kunwar Raj Singh guilty of professional misconduct, as defined in s. 27(32) of Ontario Regulation 448/80, as amended, in that he engaged in conduct or an act relevant to the practice of medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional. Consequently, the Committee ordered that Dr. Singh be reprimanded, with the fact of the reprimand to be recorded on the Register. The Committee further ruled that the Doctor's licence to practice be suspended for a period of two years. The final eighteen months of this period of suspension, however, would themselves be suspended provided that Dr. Singh meet the following conditions: (a) that he not be referred to the Discipline Committee and found guilty of a similar act of professional misconduct with a parent of a patient or staff member of a health facility or hospital in the four year period after this Order became final; and (b) that if Dr. Singh were referred to the Discipline Committee on a similar act of professional misconduct, he would either agree to the expeditious hearing of the charges within sixty days of receipt of the Notice of Hearing setting out the charges; or would agree to the suspension of his practice until the disposition of the charges against him.
Appeal: Appeal Abandoned
Hearing Date(s): 11 Sep 1991

Other Notifications (1)

Source: Member
Effective Date: 20 Dec 2019
Summary:
Summary of the Undertaking given by Dr. Kunwar Raj Singh to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, effective December 20, 2019:

The College conducted investigations into whether Dr. Singh sexually abused patients in approximately the 1970’s and 1980’s in his pediatric practice. In the face of the investigations, Dr. Singh agreed to resign from the College, effective January 1, 2020, and has agreed never to apply or reapply for registration as a physician in Ontario or any other jurisdiction. 

Current Tribunal Proceedings

No information available

Past Tribunal Proceedings (3)

Date of Decision: 11 May 2020
Summary of Decision:
On May 11, 2020, on the basis of an Agreed Statement of Facts on Liability and Admission, the Discipline Committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (“the College”)found that Dr. Kunwar Raj Singh (“Dr. Singh”) committed an act of professional misconduct, in that in that he engaged in an act or omission relevant to the practice of medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional.

BACKGROUND

The facts set out in the Agreed Statement of Facts on Liability and Admission included the following:

Dr. Singh is a 78 year-old physician who received his certificate of registration authorizing independent practice from the College on December 29, 1971. He obtained a RCPSC certification in paediatrics in November 1973. Dr. Singh resigned his membership with the College effective January 1, 2020. At all relevant times, Dr. Singh practised paediatrics at a medical clinic at 483 East Street North in Sarnia, Ontario.

January 14, 2013 undertaking to the College
 
On January 14, 2013, Dr. Singh entered into an undertaking with the College. This undertaking superseded and replaced a prior undertaking that Dr. Singh had entered on August 20, 2009. Among other specified terms, the January 14, 2013, undertaking prohibited Dr. Singh from having in-person professional encounters with female patients, or female parents or caregivers of patients, except in the presence of a female chaperone approved by the College (the “Practice Monitor”). Dr. Singh was required to ensure that the Practice Monitor initialed each patient chart for which she was present.

The undertaking also required Dr. Singh to place signs in clearly visible locations in all waiting rooms and examination rooms which stated: “Dr. Singh will only see female patients and female parents/caregivers of patients in the presence of another registered health professional.” Patient DD was a female patient of Dr. Singh between approximately March 2018 and October 2018. Patient DD saw Dr. Singh on seven separate occasions for medical appointments at his clinic at 483 East Street North in Sarnia. Patient DD’s Mother and Father brought Patient DD to all her appointments with Dr. Singh and both parents were present in the examination room during each appointment. During a number of these appointments, Dr. Singh’s Practice Monitor was not present in the examination room for the entirety of Patient DD’s appointments. Patient DD’s parents did not have any concerns in respect of Dr. Singh’s care and treatment of Patient DD.

On December 6, 2018, a Compliance Monitor of the College attended at Dr. Singh’s office to conduct a compliance visit. During the visit, Dr. Singh stated that two or three times a year, he conducted examinations of patients with hemangiomas in Room 4. Dr. Singh stated that the required signage was never posted in Room 4 because he rarely used the room for examinations of patients, including Patient DD.

On May 3, 2019, the Compliance Monitor conducted a further compliance visit at Dr. Singh’s office. The Compliance Monitor observed that the required sign was now posted in Room 4, unlike at the previous visit.

On March 20, 2018, Compliance Monitors of the College attended Dr. Singh’s office to conduct a compliance visit. During the compliance visit, the Compliance Monitors found that on two different dates for two different patients, the Practice Monitor had not signed the patients’ charts. The log sheets for both patients’ appointments were initialed by the Practice Monitor and were faxed to the College prior to the Compliance Monitor’s visit.

The Committee also received an Agreed Statement of Facts Regarding Penalty which included the following facts:

Undertaking to resign and never apply or reapply
 
On December 20, 2019, Dr. Singh entered into an undertaking to the College whereby he agreed to resign from the College, effective January 1, 2020, and never apply or re-apply for registration as a physician in Ontario or any other jurisdiction. This undertaking arose after the College conducted investigations into whether Dr. Singh sexually abused patients in approximately the 1970’s and 1980’s in his paediatric practice.

Discipline Committee History

In November 1991, the Discipline Committee found that Dr. Singh engaged in professional misconduct in that he was guilty of an offence relevant to his suitability to practice, failed to maintain the standard of practice of the profession, and engaged in disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional conduct. The Discipline Committee ordered a suspension of Dr. Singh’s licence to practise medicine for two years, the first six months commenced on a date fixed by the Registrar after the Order became final, and the remaining 18 months of the suspension were suspended subject to specified terms in the Order. The Committee also ordered a reprimand and that the reprimand be recorded on the Register.

In August 1994, the Discipline Committee found that Dr. Singh engaged in professional misconduct in that he engaged in disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional conduct.

The Discipline Committee ordered a six-month suspension of Dr. Singh’s certificate of registration, the final three months of the suspension to be suspended if Dr. Singh completed a course in medical ethics. The Committee also ordered a reprimand and that the reprimand be recorded on the Register.

Additional facts

On November 1, 2019, Dr. Singh’s Practice Monitor was interviewed by College representatives. She stated that although she was not always present in the examination room during Patient DD’s appointments, she was either standing in the hallway immediately outside the examination room or had left the room briefly, at Dr. Singh’s request, to retrieve documents requested by him.

DISPOSITION
 
The Discipline Committee ordered:
 
- Dr. Singh to attend before the panel to be reprimanded
- Dr. Singh to pay costs to the College in the amount of $6,000.00 within 30 days of the date of the Order.

DECISION AND REASONS
 
On July 6, 2020, the Committee released its full decision and reasons in this matter. The Decision and Reasons are available for review on the College’s website.
 
Reasons for Decision: Download Full Decision (PDF)
Hearing Date(s): May 11, 2020 at 1:30 p.m. Reprimand: August 27, 2020 at 10:30 a.m.
Date of Decision: 26 Aug 1994
Summary of Decision:
In August 1994, the Discipline Committee found Dr. Kunwar Raj Singh guilty of professional misconduct, as defined in s. 27(32) of Ontario Regulation 448/80, as amended, in that he engaged in conduct or an act relevant to the practice of medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional. Consequently, the Committee ordered that he be reprimanded, with the fact of the reprimand to be recorded on the Register. The Committee also ruled that Dr. Singh's licence to practice be suspended for a period of six months, with the last three months of the suspension to be themselves suspended provided that he pursued and completed, at the direction of, and to the satisfaction of the Registrar, a course of study in medical ethics.
Reasons for Decision: Download Full Decision (PDF)
Appeal: Appeal Dismissed
Appeal Decision Date: 1996-10-01
Hearing Date(s): Aug 25, 1994
Date of Decision: 27 Nov 1991
Summary of Decision:
In November 1991, the Discipline Committee found Dr. Kunwar Raj Singh guilty of professional misconduct, as defined in s. 27(32) of Ontario Regulation 448/80, as amended, in that he engaged in conduct or an act relevant to the practice of medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional. Consequently, the Committee ordered that Dr. Singh be reprimanded, with the fact of the reprimand to be recorded on the Register. The Committee further ruled that the Doctor's licence to practice be suspended for a period of two years. The final eighteen months of this period of suspension, however, would themselves be suspended provided that Dr. Singh meet the following conditions: (a) that he not be referred to the Discipline Committee and found guilty of a similar act of professional misconduct with a parent of a patient or staff member of a health facility or hospital in the four year period after this Order became final; and (b) that if Dr. Singh were referred to the Discipline Committee on a similar act of professional misconduct, he would either agree to the expeditious hearing of the charges within sixty days of receipt of the Notice of Hearing setting out the charges; or would agree to the suspension of his practice until the disposition of the charges against him.
Appeal: Appeal Abandoned
Hearing Date(s): 11 Sep 1991

Other Notifications (1)

Source: Member
Effective Date: 20 Dec 2019
Summary:
Summary of the Undertaking given by Dr. Kunwar Raj Singh to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, effective December 20, 2019:

The College conducted investigations into whether Dr. Singh sexually abused patients in approximately the 1970’s and 1980’s in his pediatric practice. In the face of the investigations, Dr. Singh agreed to resign from the College, effective January 1, 2020, and has agreed never to apply or reapply for registration as a physician in Ontario or any other jurisdiction. 

Training

Medical School: Osmania University, 1965

Registration History

DETAILS DATE
Expired: Resigned from membership. Effective: 01 Jan 2020
Terms and conditions amended by Member. Effective: 23 Sep 2016
Terms and conditions amended by Member. Effective: 14 Jan 2013
Terms and conditions amended by Member. Effective: 20 Aug 2009
Terms and conditions amended by Member. Effective: 19 Sep 2003
Transfer of class of registration to: Restricted Certificate Effective: 15 May 2003
Arrow_iconTerms and conditions imposed on certificate by: Member Effective: 15 May 2003
Suspension of registration removed. Effective: 28 Feb 1997
Suspension of registration imposed: Discipline Committee Effective: 01 Dec 1996
Suspension of registration removed. Effective: 13 Mar 1992
Suspension of registration imposed: Discipline Committee Effective: 13 Sep 1991
Transfer of class of registration to: Independent Practice Certificate Effective: 29 Dec 1971
First certificate of registration issued: Postgraduate Education Certificate Effective: 01 Jul 1971
DETAILS: Expired: Resigned from membership.
Date: Effective: 01 Jan 2020
DETAILS: Terms and conditions amended by Member.
Date: Effective: 23 Sep 2016
DETAILS: Terms and conditions amended by Member.
Date: Effective: 14 Jan 2013
DETAILS: Terms and conditions amended by Member.
Date: Effective: 20 Aug 2009
DETAILS: Terms and conditions amended by Member.
Date: Effective: 19 Sep 2003
DETAILS: Transfer of class of registration to: Restricted Certificate
Date: Effective: 15 May 2003
DETAILS: Terms and conditions imposed on certificate by: Member
Date: Effective: 15 May 2003
DETAILS: Suspension of registration removed.
Date: Effective: 28 Feb 1997
DETAILS: Suspension of registration imposed: Discipline Committee
Date: Effective: 01 Dec 1996
DETAILS: Suspension of registration removed.
Date: Effective: 13 Mar 1992
DETAILS: Suspension of registration imposed: Discipline Committee
Date: Effective: 13 Sep 1991
DETAILS: Transfer of class of registration to: Independent Practice Certificate
Date: Effective: 29 Dec 1971
DETAILS: First certificate of registration issued: Postgraduate Education Certificate
Date: Effective: 01 Jul 1971