NZ Family Spending Nearly $200K On Questionable Mexican Stem Cell Treatments
A New Zealand family with two children under the age of five suffering from an array of disabling maladies plans to travel to Mexico again to undergo a second round of expensive experimental umbilical cord stem cell treatments. A first round in February cost the family $100,000 — the grandparents’ entire retirement savings. The follow-up treatments will cost $80,000. One of the children, aged 4, suffers from cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and global development delay. The other child, a two-year-old, suffers from septo-optic dysplasia. “The risk in not doing it is waking up at 65 and wondering if you had tried, would it have made a difference,” a grandparent said.
By Rebecca Todd, “Family on $80,000 stem cell mission”, September 22, 2009, © The Press, Fairfax New Zealand Limited
What huge hearts these grandparents have. And what a horrible waste of money. I wonder what the quacks at the Mexican clinic will do with the grandparents’ $200,000? Down payment on a yacht? New house in Beverley Hills? I can’t imagine a more gut-wrenching scam. Bernie Madoff has many lieutenants in the world. I hope some of these charlatan “doctors” suffer the same fate as that con artist Madoff.