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Advent of the Davis govern ment will hasten the end for the Cook Islands practice of con troversial cancer therapist

Milan Brych.

He is likely to be forbidden the use of the Rarotonga Hospital, thus reversing the de cision of the Henry govern ment which allowed Brych to practise in the hospital but for bade it to the only three fully

qualified medical practitioners

in private practice, Drs Davis, Joe Williams and Archie Guinea.

Milan Brych’s cancer prac tice is already running into serious trouble from an Aus tralian Government decision to cease paying medical fund benefits to Brych patients from October 1. Most of the patients are from Australia.

They get refunds of from 70% to 80% of their medical bills, plus all their hospital bills. The average bill for

Brych’s medical and hospital

treatment is $l2 000, of which $7OOO to $BOOO is paid back to the patient by Australia.

In August there were 25

people being treated on the island, with two more awaiting treatment (Brych was absent in Los Angeles). The number of new arrivals is expected to be reduced as a result of the Aus tralian decision.

Brych’s first patient was

admitted to the Rarotonga hospital on April 3, 1977.

By August this year, 249

patients had completed treat

ment or were still being treated. Of these, total number of deaths on the island was 57, with scores more having died on returning home. The island deaths do not include those who arrived so ill as to be vir tually dead before Brych saw them.

Brych aims to set up clinics in Los Angeles and Brisbane, to work in association with his main Rarotongan clinic. He is not registered to practise in the US or Australia. He is regis tered to practise in the Cooks, where he has a government house and car.

Brych has announced that he will reveal details of his treat ment methods for the first time in October, in Honolulu, when he is scheduled to present a series of papers at a seminar

arranged by the Northwest

Academy of Preventive Medi cine, Washington. The seminar is at the Intercontinental Hotel, from October 16-20.

Abandoned grave markers in the ‘cancer’ section of Rarotonga cemetery