The Association against Quackery (VtdK) wants Veldhoven doctor Jens Fischer to be prosecuted for administering umbilical cord blood to almost 200 children. The board of the VtdK has submitted an urgent request to the Health Care and Youth Inspectorate (IGJ).
In September it became known that the anesthetist had been reprimanded by the inspection. The Veldhoven doctor is said to have performed a total of almost two hundred blood transfusions with Slovak umbilical cord blood in children. The doctor promised that the umbilical cord blood would cure autism, stroke symptoms and cerebral palsy. It later turned out that he did not have the correct permit for transfusions at all.
‘Prosecute the doctor who did this’
The association now calls on the inspectorate to take action against the doctor responsible for this. In the letter she states that Fischer has broken the law for two years by being guilty of ‘extremely dubious, serious quackery and carrying out risky transactions.’ An offense in which ‘young children have been subjected to experimental treatments.’
According to the board of the VtdK, which consists of regular doctors who: quackery want to combat it, it is necessary that the doctor is punished to prevent recurrence. The association also points out to the inspectorate that it can file a complaint with the Regional Disciplinary Board or report it to the Public Prosecution Service.
What did the doctor think?
The doctor himself believed that he could cure the patients with the umbilical cord blood. According to Fischer, one of the children was able to do math after the treatment, while he could not do so beforehand. He previously indicated to Omroep Brabant that he found it strange that the Inspectorate had reprimanded him.
Also works in dental practices
In addition to the treatments with umbilical cord blood, Fischer also worked as a self-employed person at two Brabant dental practices in Best and Oirschot. During an unannounced inspection visit, a used bag of umbilical cord blood was found in a refrigerator in a storage room at the practice in Best.