Cancer clinic still operating without license

A clinic claiming to cure cancer, diabetes and other serious illnesses through “detoxification” is operating without a license, five months after it opened illegally in Phnom Penh. The Immanuel Bicom True Healing Center in Chamkar Mon district came under scrutiny shortly after opening in early December when the municipal health department found that it was treating patients without a license. However, the clinic is still operating improperly and does not yet have a license from the Ministry of Health, the director of the ministry’s department of health, Saing Sary, said Wednesday. … “The last time we went [to the clinic], they said that they were still in the process of making the documents to ask for a license from the Ministry of Health despite the fact that they cannot be open for business without a license,” Sok Sokun, director of the municipal health department, said Wednesday. “In Phnom Penh, there are more than 2,000 clinics, so we couldn’t go and stop [the clinic] sooner because first we had to ask the owners to give us their documents and license issued by the Ministry of Health,” Mr. Sokun added. …

 Sek Odom
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