wowpow
July 11th, 2006, 21:39
Thai police probe bogus cancer cure after deaths
CHIANG MAI: -- Thai police have arrested an Austrian man accused of injecting terminally ill Australians, a New Zealander and other foreigners with bogus chemical cancer cures.
Several of his patients died in hospitals in Chiang Mai, according to Thai police. They say Hellfried Sartori is being held on charges of fraud and practising medicine without a licence in the northern city of Chiang Mai. His patients learned of his services from advertisements on the internet and were charged about $NZ61,000 each for consultations carried out in various hotel rooms in Chiang Mai.
New Zealand police joined the probe after a NZ woman was admitted unconscious to intensive care to the Chiang Mai-Ram Hospital. NZ embassy officials in Bangkok say the woman recovered sufficiently to return to New Zealand.
--Radio New Zealand 2006-07-11
via www.thaivisa.com (http://www.thaivisa.com)
CHIANG MAI: -- Thai police have arrested an Austrian man accused of injecting terminally ill Australians, a New Zealander and other foreigners with bogus chemical cancer cures.
Several of his patients died in hospitals in Chiang Mai, according to Thai police. They say Hellfried Sartori is being held on charges of fraud and practising medicine without a licence in the northern city of Chiang Mai. His patients learned of his services from advertisements on the internet and were charged about $NZ61,000 each for consultations carried out in various hotel rooms in Chiang Mai.
New Zealand police joined the probe after a NZ woman was admitted unconscious to intensive care to the Chiang Mai-Ram Hospital. NZ embassy officials in Bangkok say the woman recovered sufficiently to return to New Zealand.
--Radio New Zealand 2006-07-11
via www.thaivisa.com (http://www.thaivisa.com)