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SEPTEMBER 27 2013 www.burnabynewsleader.com tails 8 for de e g a p e Se
Worker went into cardiac arrest Wanda Chow
wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
Tung Sheng ‘David’ Wu has so far proven elusive, despite a warrant to appearing B.C. Supreme Court.
Bogus dentist still on the lam Judge delays decision on contempt charge until Oct. 9 Wanda Chow
wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
A B.C. Supreme Court judge will give bogus Burnaby dentist Tung Sheng “David” Wu one last chance to show up and respond to the allegations against him before making a sentencing decision Oct. 9. Last month, Associate Chief Justice Austin Cullen found Wu in contempt of a 2003 court order prohibiting him from practising
dentistry, for which he is “neither qualified nor competent,” says the College of Dental Surgeons of B.C., which is seeking the stiffest penalty available—a fine, jail time or both. At the time, Cullen issued a warrant to have Wu appear in court for sentencing. But despite the college’s investigative and legal costs of about $75,000 and another $52,000 in staff and operational costs in the case, Wu is still nowhere to be found. The case began in the spring when a patient of Wu’s complained about
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the treatment she received from him. The college’s investigation found he had been operating a cut-rate dental office out of a bedroom of a house on Southwood Street in South Burnaby. (The college stresses that his is not the same Dr. David H. Wu who formerly practised on Hastings Street in Burnaby, nor is he related to Dr. Tung-Yi Wu who currently practises on Cambie Street in Vancouver.) A May 29 search by college and RCMP investigators found about 1,500 client files, which led to Fraser
Health Authority issuing a health alert calling for anyone who had been treated by Wu to get tested for several infectious diseases, such as HIV and hepatitis. Since then, Wu has applied for and been issued a Taiwanese passport and a visa for China, which were found, along with a Canadian passport, among items in his 2013 Acura RDX SUV, which was seized by investigators, according to an affidavit by private investigator Michael Lantz.
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WorkSafeBC is investigating after a worker at a Burnaby construction site was found in cardiac arrest Wednesday morning. Burnaby RCMP Staff Sgt. Ghalib Bhayani said police responded to a call of a man having been electrocuted at about 10:15 a.m. He was working at the time at the construction site for the SOLO District development located at the southwest corner of Lougheed Highway and Willingdon Avenue. The man did electrical work, Bhayani said. “They found him passed out and assumed he’d been electrocuted.” The man was taken to hospital in critical condition. “Now it appears he may have had a heart attack,” he said, although it had not yet been confirmed. Bhayani said the man is from outside the Lower Mainland and Burnaby RCMP’s victims services unit is assisting his family. “We are a close-knit team and the thoughts of everyone here are very much with this worker and his family at this time,” said Jim Bosa of the project’s developer, Appia Development.