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For residents of a remote village in southwestern China, free health checkups and discounted prescriptions were supposed to be a boon, but instead, the unsuspecting villagers found themselves swindled out of thousands of yuan,

...More than 20 villagers participated, nine of whom were told they were at risk of disease. Oddly, all of the diseases centered around the reproductive organs — specifically, the uterus (dạ con, tử cung) and the prostate (tuyến tiền liệt).

The three staff members who carried out the checks then offered to drive the nine at-risk villagers to the hospital for further screening and treatment, promising to provide half-price discounts on medications, should they be needed.

At the hospital, the villagers were charged hundreds of yuan for medication, with some opting for additional procedures that cost even more. One woman even had a surgery to remove a “cervical polyp” (u xơ cổ tử cung) which may or may not have been present, and which cost her more than 4,700 yuan ($710). With all expenses accounted for, what started as free checkups costs the villagers over 11,000 yuan.

The villagers, meanwhile, said the staff spent hardly any time examining them before asking them to pay for medications. The woman who underwent the invasive surgery was not even given a medical report — just a bill for the procedure.

The scam was exposed in an online forum by a netizen claiming to be a relative of one of the villagers...

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