Another “Miracle surgery” scam in Malaysia?
posted in - Fraud watch, - Palmdoc |CyberSetan pointed out in this thread in the LowYat.net forums yet another possible medical scam in this country. The post details the alleged “doctor” and the nature of his practice which claims to use surgery in conjunction with “spiritual healing”. Links to his website as well as videos of the “surgery” can be seen in that post.
A search for the alleged “doctor” in the MMC medical registry fails to find the name listed there. He however runs his miracle surgery “practice” in a “Pusat Rawatan” in Johor and KL.
The “surgery” in those videos seems to be performed without general anaesthetic, with razors and scissors and the “organs” don’t seem to be bleeding much suggesting these are probably animal parts placed on top of the “patient”. The “patients” also end up with no scars!
Such “miracle surgery” scams are not unique to Malaysia and have been going on in other countries including notoriously the Philippines. The Filipino “psychic surgeons” are even more miraculous as they don’t use surgical instruments, only their bare hands! Their techniques are exposed in this video by James Randi:
Someone in the LowYat thread had suggested a complaint to the MMC but unfortunately this is not the authority which deals with charlatans and bogus doctors. The MMC governs the ethical behaviour of registered/licensed doctors and not charlatans and quacks. The latter fall under the jurisdiction of the MOH. In case the MOH does not read this post, I have sent kkm@moh.gov.my an email and I hope they will investigate further. This is what the PHFSA was set up for – to protect the public from charlatans and quacks.
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July 5th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
his ‘spokesman’ on youtube.com claims that he is a “qualified medical doctor.”
if, upon calling him up at his place of practice, and this claim is repeated, then even MMC can take action against him, imho.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:14 am
There are some more video clips of Johari Mansor’s “surgeries” appearing in Youtube. This is not good. More naive people are getting conned. Here are the new clips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbbUK7LRzac (Kidney Tumour Removal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjrgzvxgm-w (unknown surgery)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRYKGYrca5E (unknown surgery)
November 16th, 2009 at 6:15 am
I also found out that he was charged before with illegal possession of controlled medicines. Please refer to the news link below:
http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=53096
Other link: http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1070318/+20
What is the Ministry of Health doing….? Has my emails gone to waste?…
August 6th, 2010 at 3:40 am
A few weeks ago, I sent an email to the Traditional and Complementary Division (TCM) of MOH and below is the reply that I got:
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Apparently the TCM division didn’t read thoroughly my email and links and what I am complaining about.
As stated in the reply, it states that MMC cannot take action against unregistered individuals, but I am not reporting about that, I am reporting that JOHARI MANSOR practices medicine and surgery (SCAM surgery AT THAT) without the proper the proper qualification.
He is not registered with MMC and claims to be a “medical doctor”. This is against Medical Act 1971, Part-V: General, section 32….