Anesthesiologist Jens Fischer from Veldhoven treated more than two hundred children with umbilical cord blood for two years, without a license to do so. Recently, the bill followed: a fine from the Health and Youth Care Inspectorate (IGJ), after the Association Against Quackery had urged intervention. How did the doctor operate? And how did the inspectorate eventually track him down? A reconstruction.
It is a mild December morning in 2024 when,…
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Anesthesiologist Jens Fischer from Veldhoven treated more than two hundred children with umbilical cord blood for two years, without a license to do so. Recently, the bill followed: a fine from the Health and Youth Care Inspectorate (IGJ), after the Association Against Quackery had urged intervention. How did the doctor operate? And how did the inspectorate eventually track him down? A reconstruction.
It is a mild December morning in 2024 when,…