Fake doctors doing checkups might put people's lives at risk

THE HEALTH MANAGEMENT company Health 100 is in the news as it has been revealed that many of its staff do not have a doctor's certificate. As early as June, journalists found that five of the seven "medical staff" in a Health 100 clinic in Changsha, Central China's Hunan province, did not have a medical license. Now a local health department in Guangzhou has found a Health 100 in the city might have issued health reports illegally to the patients. Thepaper.cn comments:

In recent years, with the improvement of living standards and health awareness, people are paying more and more attention to their health and have a greater willingness to have a checkup. As a result, medical examination industry is getting bigger and bigger. According to the "China Health and Family Planning Statistical Yearbook", about one-third of the population, had a physical examination last year. It is conservatively estimated that by 2021, the market size of the medical examination industry will reach 240 billion yuan ($35.24 billion).

The demand for health services has indeed brought unprecedented opportunities for development in many medical and health-related industries. But it has also come with challenges and given many unscrupulous profit-seeking businesses the smell of money.

The reports about Health 100 reveals one of the major problems about the health industry, namely the lack of qualified professionals. Facing a giant market, some enterprises might try to expand, but there are not enough talents to meet the demand of the whole industry.

With the talent pool insufficient to support the market's rapid expansion, the desire for profit prompts companies to take risks and hire employees who have not obtained the necessary qualifications. Such behavior is not only a hidden danger for the future development of the enterprises and the industry, it also poses a potential risk to people's health.

When it comes to health, the bottom line must be people's well-being. Even profit-seeking enterprises should not cross that line.