According to information from Da Nang City Police, the case at Da Nang International General Clinic hired someone without a doctor's degree to impersonate a doctor, "drawing for a disease" to defraud the patient of nearly 400 million VND. A "fraud ecosystem" has been built with systematic subdivision.
The real doctor is only on the license, while the fake doctor (not even in grade 12) directly examines, consultes and performs the procedure. When there was an inspection team, the person who played the doctor immediately rumored to have gone through a secret path, leaving behind a legitimate outside clinic.
Such a sophisticated "stacking the scene" shows that this is not a single scam, but an organized fraud operation mechanism.
The main forms of profiteering are "denying diseases", threatening complications, causing pain with the intention of forcing customers to switch from low-cost treatment packages to packages with many times higher prices, from 5 to 30 million VND.
This is no longer an unethical business behavior, but shows signs of harming the physical and mental health of patients.
In many cases, if the procedure is unsafe, the patient will not only lose money but also suffer long-term health consequences, even threatening his life.
It is worth mentioning that this is not the first time that "international clinics" disguised as such a scam have been discovered.
Previously, there were many similar cases that were exposed in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Hai Phong... with similar patterns: legal documents with "international" labels, "virtual" doctors, "illusioned" tricks, patient bullying and inflated service prices. However, such tricks still have "back yard".
This shows that there are many loopholes in the licensing and testing of private health activities in Da Nang, especially in the stage of inspection, supervision and post-licensing.
In particular, a part of the population is still easily helped, even trusting when giving their health and lives to private clinics with the reputation of "international" without thorough research.
The story of 7 subjects setting up clinics, hiring people without degrees to impersonate doctors, "drawing diseases" to make a profit is an inevitable result of the trend of strongly socializing healthcare.
Encouraging private investment in healthcare is a correct policy, contributing to reducing the burden on the public health system and increasing the choice for people.
However, when socialization comes with a loose, unstandarized and transparent mechanism, the competitive environment in the medical industry will be distorted - from service to making a profit at all costs.
Many private clinics only care about profits, ignore medical ethics and are willing to turn patients into tools to optimize revenue.
Without a mechanism for inspection, periodic inspection and supervision of professional behavior after licensing, the socialization of healthcare can become a fertile land for fraud and administrative violations, leading to loss of people's trust in private healthcare services.
