Operating licenses of most Comsn nursing-care units to be aborte

Operating licenses of most Comsn nursing-care units to be aborte

TOKYO, Japan - The Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, where the head office of Comsn Inc. is located. Nearly 80 percent of the operating licenses for nursing-care centers run by Comsn will be terminated after the firm was found to have obtained some of the licenses through fraudulent applications, welfare ministry officials said June 6. (Kyodo)

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