Five Chinese clinics have licenses revoked

 

This board at the clinic at 141 Phan Dang Luu Street in Phu Nhuan District showing low treatment costs and cheap Chinese traditional medicines, but in fact, doctors there overcharged their patients Photo: Tuoi Tre

Last month, the agency’s inspectors examined 12 foreign-related clinics and found 10 of them committing violations such as offering and advertising unlicensed services, employing doctors without practitioners’ licenses, selling unapproved medicine, said Dr. Phan Kim Binh, deputy chief Inspector.
The Inspectorate has recently given these 10 clinics fines totaling VND250 million (US$12,000) and revoked licenses from 5 of them.

The agency also asked the police to investigate two cases of using suspected fake advertising licenses and three other cases in which foreign health workers worked without a work permit.

According to the Health Ministry’s Traditional Medicine and Pharmacy Department, 41 Chinese doctors have been licensed to practice in 16 provinces and cities nationwide, including 11 doctors in seven clinics in HCMC and 7 others in five health facilities in Hanoi.

In related developments, the Health Department of central Binh Dinh Province has issued a fine of VND4 million (US$192) to Bac Ai Traditional Medicine Clinic, a Chinese health facility in Quy Nhon City, for providing patients with medicines of unknown origin.