An alternative healer in Waalre offers expensive, unproven therapies to cancer patients who have completed treatment. This is evident from research by Follow The Money (FTM). The practitioner has already been reprimanded by the Inspectorate, but will continue with his practices in a new clinic.
Michael van Gils opened his first private practice in Waalre in 2018: the BeterKliniek. He treated patients there with all kinds of conditions, such as lung cancer and schizophrenia, as it turned out in 2024 from research by FTM.
But the alternative treatments were often not scientifically proven. For example, he offered ‘dentric cell therapy’, a method that he believed was effective against all types of cancer. According to FTM, he is not allowed to prescribe medication himself: a doctor who works at the clinic does that for him.
Inspectorate wrote report
The Healthcare and Youth Inspectorate (IGJ) visited the clinic at the end of 2024 and wrote a critical report about. Inspectors saw serious shortcomings, such as inadequate infection prevention and the provision of risky therapies.
Van Gils closed the clinic in February, but opened a new one two months later: Feel Good Care, writes FTM. The practice is only seven hundred meters from the old clinic.
Undercover for consultation
FTM went undercover for a consultation with a patient to see how things are going in this new clinic. The patient has metastatic prostate cancer and was told in the hospital that he is terminally ill, although his cancer can still be treated with chemotherapy and hormone therapy.
Van Gils said during the undercover consultation that he did see patients with the same diagnosis healed. The alternative practitioner offered the patient treatment with vitamin C. “Vitamin C is actually a chemotherapy without side effects,” he said, as can be heard on recordings.
Inspection informed
The treatment cost about two thousand euros. According to FTM, a large part of the clinic’s income ends up with Van Gils, because he is the sole shareholder of the company.
The practitioner told FTM in a response that he cannot remember his statements during the consultation. The Inspectorate states that it is aware of the new clinic. Because the previous clinic was officially a different healthcare provider, the critical report at the time has no influence on the new practice, according to the Inspectorate.