Fake doctors doing checkups might put people's lives at risk

THE HEALTH MANAGEMENT company Health 100 is in the news as it has been revealed that many of its staff do not have a doctor's certificate. As early as June, journalists found that five of the seven "medical staff" in a Health 100 clinic in Changsha, Central China's Hunan province, did not have a medical license. Now a local health department in Guangzhou has found a Health 100 in the city might have issued health reports illegally to the patients. Thepaper.cn comments:

In recent years, with the improvement of living standards and health awareness, people are paying more and more attention to their health and have a greater willingness to have a checkup. As a result, medical examination industry is getting bigger and bigger. According to the "China Health and Family Planning Statistical Yearbook", about one-third of the population, had a physical examination last year. It is conservatively estimated that by 2021, the market size of the medical examination industry will reach 240 billion yuan ($35.24 billion).

The demand for health services has indeed brought unprecedented opportunities for development in many medical and health-related industries. But it has also come with challenges and given many unscrupulous profit-seeking businesses the smell of money.