Compiled by C. ARUNO, DIVYA THERESA RAVI and R. ARAVINTHAN
A TRADITIONAL Chinese medicine clinic in China’s Hubei province was shut down by the authorities after 15 of its patients died following cancer treatments there, reported China Press.
The clinic’s founder Wu Pengfei once released a video claiming that he managed to cure some 3,000 cancer patients, which earned him the moniker “China’s Number One Healer of Cancer”.
However, the clinic caught the attention of health authorities after more than a dozen of its patients died following their treatment.
One of them was Wang Xiaobo who underwent “Plum Blossom Moxibustion Therapy” costing 18,620 yuan (RM11,420) in a bid to cure his liver cancer.
Moxibustion is a traditional Chinese medicine therapy that involves burning moxa, a cone or stick made from ground mugwort leaves near the skin which is believed to stimulate blood circulation and promote healing.
Wang received further treatment from three doctors at the clinic which cost a total of 47,700 yuan (RM29,260).
When Wang returned to his home in Qingdao, Shandong, he experienced persistent diarrhoea and was sent to the hospital.
It was later discovered that he had ascites, which is the accumulation of fluids in the abdomen, resulting from a damaged liver.
He died after spending a month in hospital.
Upset and angry, Wang’s younger sister along with other family members of patients who had died reported the matter to the authorities. It was later revealed that at least 15 patients had died in a span of six months after receiving treatment at the clinic.
> A man in Singapore called the authorities to complain about his upstairs neighbour throwing used sanitary pads out of the window, many of which landed on his outdoor air-conditioning compressor unit, reported China Press.Zheng Ze Xiang, 61, who works in the construction sector, said he was disgusted by his neighbour’s actions.
“Before March, it happened only occasionally. More recently, they will throw the pads out of the window every month and many of them landed on my compressor unit,” he said.
Zheng added he was now afraid to open his bedroom window, fearing a sanitary pad would land in his room. He has since reported the incident to the town council, National Environment Agency and police, hoping the authorities would take action.
When reporters visited the flat above Zheng’s, they were met with a woman in her 70s, known only as Liu. The woman lives with her granddaughter and claimed that they wrapped their sanitary pads in plastic bags before disposing of them in the bin.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
