The use of various machines in various clinics around Cyprus that diagnose various health problems with a single touch or predict when a person will get sick in the future and with which disease or even when a woman will become pregnant has strongly mobilized the Pancyprian Medical Association (PIS) , who calls on the public to be more careful in health issues, said the Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the Association, Vassos Oikonomou.
According to Dr. Oikonomou, the issue of charlatanism in Cyprus due to the financial crisis has increased with the result that the Pancyprian Medical Association has started a real struggle to eradicate it with the help of the Police.
Unfortunately, he noted, "some people take advantage of patients' despair, hopelessness, physical and mental pain and sell them seaweed for silk ribbons."
"There is an effort on our part to locate various machines used in various clinics to see which ones are recognized by various medical associations, universities. Those who are not recognized, we appeal to the people to ask for a license to use the machine that will be issued by the PIS ", said Dr. Economou to KYPE.
With the use of these machines, those who use them, tell the people who visit them that "in six months you will get cancer" or "you have this disease now" or "in one year you will get pregnant". "These are incredible things that do not correspond to the medical reality. "These people who have the machines tell their visitors that they were at NASA, that they brought the machines from America and much more."
Dr. Economou told KYPE that now the PIS has two cases that can be substantiated in the Disciplinary Body. In these cases, he said, those involved were doing "medicine" that goes beyond the limits set by medical ethics and ethics.
One case, he said, involved the use of a machine to deceive patients, while the other claimed that it carried cosmic energy against cancer, a method not recognized by the official oncology company.
"We have a complaint from a woman that she took her mother - who later died, and that this charlatan ate a huge amount of it," he added.
This case, he continued, is being investigated by an investigating officer and at the next session the House will decide whether it will be taken to the Disciplinary Board.
The case, said Dr. Economou, was denounced by the Council of the Medical Corps ex officio when we saw on the internet that it was advertised as curing cancer and appealed to the world to come to him, giving false hopes.
The aim is to bring the perpetrators together and to raise public awareness to report such incidents.
Dr. Oikonomou thanked the Police for their cooperation and said that there should be a coordinated fight on behalf of the PIS, the Ministry of Health, the competent judicial and police authorities and the citizens.
"Punishment is not an end in itself. There are remarkable scientists to appeal to the Cypriot patient depending on his condition. "There is no reason for them to resort to charlatans who take our money by making fun of us," he added.
Dr. Economou concluded by saying that there is now a discussion with the Police about a registered doctor who falsified his specialty, a case that is being prosecuted.
Source: ANT1