Chennai
Claiming to be a global leader in manufacture and distribution of alternative medical instruments, Vigen India offers mats that they state will cure blood-related diseases. Siva Subramanian, a resident of Old Washermanpet, who had brought two beds from the company for around Rs. 1.5 lakhs for his wife with kidney ailment alleged that the company assured him a cure, and convinced him not to take his wife for dialysis. He said due to the false assurance and bogus claims of the company, the health condition of his wife deteriorated and she died at Stanley Hospital last year.
“Many of us fell victim to Vigen India’s false assurances. They first asked me to purchase a bed paying Rs. 24,500 and told me that my wife, who has been on regular dialysis till then, need not take any other treatment and this bed would cure her completely,” Siva Subramanian said on Friday.
“My wife’s condition only became worse so I went and met the ‘doctor’ Lim, a Korean national. He told me that there is an advanced bed ‘Top & Top 8500’ which could cure my wife permanently. The bed was priced at Rs. 1,49,500. I bought that bed and used it, but my wife’s condition became worse and I had to admit her at Stanley Medical College and Hospital, where she died,” Siva Subramanian said. He said another 25-year-old youth, died due to sepsis as his parents were told not to seek any other treatment for the boy.
“There are many people in our areas who have paid the amount and were cheated by this company,” he added. Upon checking, the company’s website claimed that its products could “eradicate the blood related diseases of the people” among several other claims.
When contacted, a representative from Vigen India in Chennai named Nasar denied the charges, and said that they only offered acupressure therapy and not any cure for diseases. “The beds are imported from Korea and it purifies the blood. We do not ask any to stop their routine medical treatment,” he said.
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