Accordingly, the company's general clinic committed a series of violations in medical examination and treatment, including: Not posting prices for medical examination and treatment services; Not keeping medical examination and treatment records as prescribed by law; Not ensuring one of the following conditions after being granted a license to operate medical examination and treatment for the form of organization as a general clinic; Providing medical examination and treatment services beyond the scope of expertise; Advertising special products, goods and services without having the content confirmed by a competent State agency before advertising.

For these acts, the Inspectorate of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health fined the clinic VND202 million and revoked its medical examination and treatment license for 4 months. The clinic’s professional manager, Mr. Lieu Thanh Hoang, also had his medical examination and treatment practice certificate revoked for 3 months.

In addition, this clinic must also remove, dismantle, and delete advertisements whose content has not been confirmed by a competent State agency before implementation.

Previously on September 19, the Health Department Inspectorate received a call for help from a relative of a female patient with HO. This person said that the Saigon Medical Clinic kept her there to "fake her illness and extort money".

Immediately after receiving the information, the Department Inspectorate coordinated with the District 5 Health Department, the People's Committee and the Ward 2 Police to conduct a surprise inspection of the above clinic.

At the time of inspection, the authorities recorded that on the first floor of the facility's waiting room, there were three patients including HO, QK and TN who came for examination because they wanted to perform the technique of terminating a pregnancy, all of whom had just undergone this procedure.

It is worth mentioning that at that time, there was no obstetrician present at the clinic, and the facility could not provide medical examination and treatment records or patient invoices.

Patient HO said she went to this clinic for a gynecological examination. The clinic examined her and said that a fetus had been detected. They then advised that the abortion cost was 2 million VND and was painless.

However, during the abortion procedure, this clinic required the patient to sign a 29 million package before continuing, otherwise it would cause heavy bleeding and great pain, and pressured the patient to transfer money right on the hospital bed... This patient could only transfer 9 million VND so they were detained and forced to pay the full amount.

Immediately afterwards, the Health Department Inspector instructed to transfer the patients to Tu Du Hospital for examination and health monitoring to ensure the safety of the patients' lives.

It is known that the legal representative of Saigon Medical Services Company Limited is Mr. Sin Sui Sang, the person in charge of technical expertise of the company's affiliated clinic is Mr. Lieu Thanh Hoang (Certificate of Practice No. 001498/AG-CCHN dated December 21, 2012) and the person in charge of obstetrics and gynecology is Ms. Do Thi Lam Oanh (Certificate of Practice No. 053188/HCM-CCHN dated February 15, 2022).

Upon inspection, the Health Department Inspectorate found that the clinic had signs of detaining patients, “faking illnesses, and extorting money” as reported by the patients. The Health Department Inspectorate drew up a report and temporarily suspended the facility’s medical examination and treatment activities.