A SPECIALIST clinic has closed its doors, leaving debts and disgruntled patients.
The TABE Treatment Clinic, which opened in Central last August, closed last month and its owners have been accused of fleeing Hongkong without settling debts or completing treatments paid for in advance.
An advertising agency is owed almost $150,000 and a contractor $45,000 for renovation work.
The clinic was opened by Australian Mr Peter Anderson, who said he was the chairman of the TABE clinics.
He rented 1,400 square feet in Golden Centre, a new office building in Des Voeux Road, and hired two doctors offering to treat arthritis, spondylitis (inflammation of the vertebrae), backache, ligament injuries and bone conditions with poultices made upof traditional Ayurvedic herbs from India.
Mr Anderson and Dr Rajiv Anand, who had been brought from India to run the clinic, are now in Madras.