All
of the seven licensed Chinese clinics in Ho Chi Minh City have been found
violating regulations on medical practice, the city Health Department reported.
According to the department’s note, the city
currently has seven licensed Chinese clinics which operate many other medical
facilities across the city.
The violators include the branch of the
Chinese Medical Clinic in Ward 2, Phu Nhuan District; the Chinese Medical
Clinic in Ward 14, District 10; the Trung Nam Traditional Medical Clinic in
Ward 16, District 11; the Van Lang Medical Trading and Production Co Ltd in
Ward 26, Binh Thanh District; the Anh Sang Traditional Medicine Co Ltd in Ward
8, Tan Binh District; the Hue Ha Traditional Medicine Co Ltd in Ward 12,
District 5; and an individual health entity in Ward 12, District 6.
Following a recent investigation, the
department found these entities advertising without registration or with
unapproved contents, not using Vietnamese in their prescriptions, not having
registry books for their patients, and using signboards not in accordance with
relevant regulations.
The violators have been fined a total of
VND324.3 million (US$15,500) and have been ordered to correct their
wrongdoings, the department said.
Earlier, many readers reported to Tuoi Tre
that many HCMC-based Chinese clinics launched boastful advertisements, gave
deceitful prescriptions to patients, and provided medicines at exorbitant
prices.
Tuoi Tre later conducted its own inquiries and
found the situation was the same as reported by the readers.
Many patients said they ended up at Chinese clinics
after seeing or reading their advertisements on the internet 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.
Such 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 of dong on treatment at these places, their health did not
improve but in some cases they even suffered from complications.
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