Con Doctors From China Strike Bruneian Women
By Ignatius Stephen

Bandar Seri Begawan - A group of visiting Chinese "doctors" are terrorizing the elderly in the Brunei capital.

Some of these old folks have had their heart racing alarmingly fast, or their blood pressure shooting up to dangerous levels. Worse still are the cases of blood sugar of aged diabetic victims reaching precariously high after "treatment."

Operating in twos and threes and armed with packets of small rolled up candy like dark brown "cure all" pills these "doctors" from China go house calling targeting elderly Chinese women in the Brunei capital.

They pick up a time when others are away at work and then convince the elderly women that their pills can work wonders.

Because they are from China and as the older people still look towards that county with some reverence the conmen doctors flashing impressive business cards from non-existent hospitals find it easy to convince the old folks.

Believing in the bogus pills absolutely some trusting souls totally abstained from their hospital and clinic prescriptions landing them in difficulties.

"My aunt had her sugar levels reaching to dangerous levels. We did not know what was happening. It was only later that we found out that the she had been conned by the Chinese doctors," said a young office executive who wished not to be named.

She said that she is enlisting the assistance of the press so that others will not fall for the trick. She plans to lodge a report to the Chinese Embassy.

The conmen's calls are apparently proving a thriving business. They are singling out housing estates.

"They were so respectable looking and extremely convincing. I had no doubt at all that they were from a famous hospital as they claimed from China," said an elderly victim.

"But my son now tells be the pills could be harmful or at best just sugar candies," she added.

The pills come in plastic packets depicting the sketch of a Chinese scholar and claims to cure all ailments under the sun.

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