Doctors
at many Chinese-owned clinics in Ho Chi Minh City have given deceitful
prescriptions to patients, sold medicines at exorbitant prices, and in some
cases, caused complications, many readers told Tuoi Tre.
Despite hyperbolic claims in their
advertisements about their capabilities, Chinese-owned clinics failed to
deliver their promise to patients and yet proved to be super-effective in
fleecing them.
Bluffing their way through crooked treatment plans
Many patients said they ended up at Chinese
clinics after seeing or reading their advertisements on the tube and in the
newspapers.
Some of them were impressed with the printed
materials, often made to look like health magazines and freely distributed by
the clinics to patients, in which they boasted they could treat nearly all
diseases.
“Trung Nam General Hospital” at 1509 Ba Thang
Hai, District 11, is one of the places that could inflate a supersized balloon
with their hot air. In their promotion materials, Chinese doctors here claimed
to be able to perform an abortion on a woman “within 3 minutes” or “orthopedics
of male genital organ with international techniques.”
It also advertised “13 family-owned methods to
treat cancer.”
Similarly, an oriental clinic called Hien Dai
at 337 Cong Hoa, in Tan Binh district, in their advertising leaflets and
booklets, declared it can cure a wide variety of diseases with “esoteric
methods.” Diabetes, it claimed, can be cured at the clinic after 2-4 times of
treatment. Men with kidney failures, or suffering from sexual impotence or
early ejection, could rid themselves of these problems after only 1 or 2
treatments!
The same hyperbole can be found at Truong An
clinic at 786 Hong Bang, District 11 where patients are told diseases like
impotence, kidney failure, infertility, hepatitis B, diabetes, gravel, and
cirrhosis can easily be cured here in a short time with “age-old secret
methods.” It even said it could help improve the size of short or small penis
at patients’ requests.
These extravagant advertisements are often
seen on many national TV channels, including SCTV7, SCTV9, VTV9, and BPTV1.
However, many patients said after spending tens of millions on treatment at
these places their health not only did not improve but in some cases they even
suffered from complications.
Gross exaggeration is the name of the game
42-year-old N.Q.D., a Vietnamese-American,
whose private part suffered some red rashes after using condoms, came to Trung
Nam on August 9 after watching some advertisements of the clinic on television.
After a preliminary examination involving a
test of his urine sample and a CT scan, a Chinese doctor told him he had
urinary infection and Candida fungus and enlarged prostate. He offered D.
treatment at the prices of VND2 million (US$96) for the fungus and urinary
infection, 4-8 million for enlarged prostate and VND2 million for circumcision.
While waiting for the test results, D. talked
to other male patients at the clinic who told him they were given exactly the
same diagnosis. Doubtful, D. came to Binh Dan Hospital and was told he had not
suffered any of those diseases.
TUOI TRE
Business & Investment Opportunities
YourVietnamExpert is a division of Saigon Business Corporation Pte Ltd, Incorporated in Singapore since 1994. As Your Business Companion, we propose a range of services in Consulting, Investment and Management, focusing three main economic sectors: International PR; Healthcare & Wellness;and Tourism & Hospitality. We also propose Higher Education, as a bridge between educational structures and industries, by supporting international programs. Sign up with twitter to get news updates with @SaigonBusinessC. Thanks.
No comments:
Post a Comment