TCM practitioner jailed for using fake certificate A Traditional Chinese Medicine, or TCM, practitioner has been sentenced to four weeks' jail after he was convicted of using a false certificate for registration.
Zhong Zhili was prosecuted by the TCM Practitioners Board for submitting a false certificate from the Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, to register as an acupuncturist in 2001, and as a TCM physician in 2002.
In all, he was convicted of four charges under the TCM Practitioners Act.
As a result of the conviction, the Board also cancelled his acupuncturist and TCM physician registrations.
Zhong had worked at Heng-Lik Health-Life Centre at Block 305, Woodlands Street 31. - CNA/ch |