A number of celebrities and artists fell victim to a person named "Youssef Khairy" who called himself "a human brown plumber", as some of them used to resort to him to perform massage sessions, physiotherapy and muscle relaxation in order to relax, in his center in a Cairo neighborhood, before the union warned The General Authority of Physiotherapy prevents him from dealing with him and confirms his impersonation of a physiotherapist, and the union demanded to verify the identity of the physiotherapy doctors, the licensing of the place and the license to practice the profession before cooperating with them or undergoing any kind of treatment they have.
The General Captain of Physiotherapy, Dr. Sami Saad, indicated, in an intervention with the "Al-Hekaya" program, that celebrities promoted him, and that the most dangerous thing in the matter is that this person - whom he described as a quorum - performed a wrong procedure with a child whose spine is not fully developed, and appealed to the Supreme Media Council to prevent The appearance of any doctor without a license from the competent syndicate.
After informing the union, the authorities quickly arrested him and closed the center. He was imprisoned for 15 days pending investigations on charges of forging the national ID card and graduation certificate, as it turned out that he was a tourism and hotel graduate.
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Spinal distortion
As soon as he was arrested, a number of celebrities came out to confirm that they had fallen victim to this person, and the Egyptian singer Sandy said - in an intervention with the “Al-Hekaya” program with the media Amr Adib - that she decided to resort to him because she suffers from a deformity in the spine, and when she asked her fellow artists such as Karim Fahmy and Asma Jalal confirmed that he had obtained certificates and awards from abroad, describing her as "a lot of fraud", which motivated her to go for x-rays regarding her condition.
The young singer continued that she had to go to the hospital, and the doctor asked her if she had an accident that led to the entry of the cartilage in the spinal cord in a way that could cause her paralysis from which she will not recover, and she is still continuing the treatment, and she explained that when she called him, he asked her not to defame him on the communication platforms. social.
Sandy confirmed that he was getting 450 Egyptian pounds (28.6 US dollars), but he was treating artists for free in exchange for advertising for him, and Sandy continued that she tried to warn people of him, but no one noticed her.
In the same episode of the “Al-Hekaya” program, the young artist, Mohamed Anwar, admitted that he was initially rejecting the idea, but when he saw him in the theater doing a “bang” for the spine of 6 artists, he decided to go through the experiment, and stated that he felt pain as soon as he learned about the health crises that afflicted him. Some of his colleagues exposed him.
In press statements by the artist Majed Al-Masry, he admitted that he decided to resort to "a human plumber" after he saw him on one of the programs, in addition to watching him with artists, which encouraged him to make the decision, especially since he did not know that this person was a forger, and because it was the first time He resorts to such a matter, and it does not differentiate whether the person is practicing the profession or not.
As for the artist Heba Magdy, she also said in previous press statements that she was watching him in the scenes of the play "King Lear", where he was doing physical therapy for some artists, which also encouraged her to experiment.
blaming artists
The artist, Amir Karara, in an intervention with the “Akher Al-Nahar” program, refused to blame the artists, and said that he did not promote him, and that the mistake lies with the competent authority that left him to work for 3 years without a license, and that a friend recommended him to him, but he did not feel comfortable with him. He did not promote it in the first place, and that he was dealing with a famous doctor, and he did not know that the title of the healer was "the human-built plumber".
Celebrity exploitation
The "Plumber Al-Bunni Humane" was keen to communicate with the artists and shoot videos that promoted himself on his Instagram page, including Amir Karara, Menna Fadali, Mai Selim, Hajar Al-Sharnoubi, Dalia Mustafa, Hamo Beka, Karim Fahmy, Sandy, Reham Abdel Ghafour, Mohamed Abdel-Rahman, Majed Al-Masry, Hassan El-Raddad and the businessman. Hani Saad, artist Ahmed Fahmy, director Mohamed Sami, goalkeeper Mohamed Abu Jabal, singer Mahmoud El-Aseeli and Rania Farid Shawky, who fell victim to physiotherapy sessions that he gave them as a gift to promote his center.
Promoting Youssef Khairy’s activity opens the way for controversy over the exploitation of celebrities in advertising for harmful products, services or unqualified people, in exchange for celebrities accepting the service for free or for a fee, and while some demand accountability for those who participated in the promotion and dishonest propaganda that may harm others, celebrities justify This is because they are ignorant of many facts about those who use their names.
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