"Trust in Danger: Your Medical Examination Results in China Might be Flawed", 9 Dec 2018

…The Chief Executive Officer of the iKang Guobin Healthcare Group, Inc. [Zhang Ligang] revealed the chilling fraudulent practices that are prevalent in the Chinese health examination industry [during the recent Chinese Enterprise Leader summit].

According to Zhang, these fraudulent practices include having nurses pretending to be actual doctors and draw blood without actually taking the samples to a lab for examination…Their actual health status was never examined by professionals, the report that the patients receive is merely a copy of some random statistics…

…And for companies engaging in such unethical practices, they are not likely to get caught: Approximately 3 out of 1,000 cancer symptoms are detected from regular medical examinations. It means that people wouldn’t even realize that these reports are fake…Zhang Ligang pointed out that health service companies would make very little profit from those medical examinations…Their paths to reaching additional profits has become dangerous: Reducing the operational costs by not doing any real examinations at all.

While Zhang argued that iKang will never engage these practices, his whistle blowing actions triggered a serious trust crisis of the country’s health examination service industry…

In fact, these issues are not rare in the industry, according to the Beijing News, various health examination services across the country have been punished for engaging in fraudulent practices over the past four years. Companies found guilty of fraud were fined and warned by the authorities…

…[A] commentary article suggested that those who are associated with serious fraud practices regarding health examinations should be criminally charged. The commentary piece argued that it is the time to increase the costs of breaking the law and make sure the practitioners abide and respect service standards regulated by the health authorities…