On July 7, speaking with Lao Dong, Director of the Gia Lai Provincial Department of Health Le Quang Hung said that the Department had established an inspection team to clarify the reflection on the P.D General Clinic (located in Quy Nhon Ward) being accused of collecting medical examination and treatment service fees at unusually high prices.
Previously, on Facebook, information was spread that P.D General Clinic "ripped off" people. According to the Facebook account "Truong Oanh", on July 5, Mr. Nguyen C had a urinary tract, so he went to P.D General Clinic for a health check. After receiving the treatment, the clinic informed Mr. C to pay 30 million VND for treatment according to a 3-month treatment plan.
However, Mr. C only had more than 13 million VND with him at that time, so he had paid in advance (the clinic did not issue a receipt). After that, the clinic continued to ask Mr. C's family to pay the remaining 17 million VND to perform the treatment.
When Mr. C's family requested clarification of the fees and wished to stop the examination, the clinic only presented some documents recorded in general such as the "treatment fee" bill of 6.2 million VND, "test fee" of 800,000 VND, "medicine fee" of 660,000 VND...
The account "Truong Oanh" said that his family spent nearly 10 million VND for a medical examination at this private facility. It is worth mentioning that the documents of the fees are recorded together and not specifically.
Receiving the feedback, the Director of the Gia Lai Provincial Department of Health directed relevant units to urgently verify and clarify the incident for handling according to regulations.
"The Department will strictly handle if the inspection team discovers violations. Currently, the health sector has only received information through social networking channels, so it is not possible to determine the true or falsehood of the incident," Mr. Le Quang Hung informed.
Previously, on March 26, the Inspectorate of the Department of Health of Binh Dinh province (old - now in Gia Lai province) had administratively sanctioned P.D General Clinic (P.D Investment Company Limited, address 14x Nguyen Thai Hoc) with the amount of 8 million VND for not recording the medical record or not recording complete personal information of the patient, diagnosis, treatment prescription, prescription and re-examination time according to regulations. The penalty decision also stipulates the temporary suspension of the right to use the medical practice certificate of obstetricians and gynecologists for 2 months.
