A little more than a year after it opened an office in Tucson with promises of enhancing male virility, NuMale Medical Center has closed.
The clinic’s office space at 5240 E. Knight Drive, Suite 100, was cleared out over the weekend, said Dev Sethi, the attorney representing landlords from Sonia Enterprises.
Sethi said his clients are disappointed that the medical practice breached its lease but are also concerned “for the patients the practice and its physicians abandoned” by leaving “in the dark of night with no notice.”
NuMale spokesman Justin Pulliam said the clinic, which did extensive local advertising, stopped seeing new patients in December and has provided services to all existing patients. No patients were abandoned, he said.
Pulliam said the clinic had a “few hundred patients” who have either completed their treatments or, if not, can be taken care of either remotely or by going to another NuMale clinic in another city. NuMale has clinics in 12 other cities, he said.
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“There’s no story here,” he said. “The landlord is upset because we are breaking the lease. ... We’ve contacted our patients as needed. We would never abandon any patients.”
When it came to Tucson last year, NuMale advertised itself as having “the most state-of-the-art medical therapies that address the root causes of weight gain, erectile dysfunction, low testosterone and other men’s health issues.” It also offered treatments for hair loss and platelet-rich plasma treatments for male enhancement.
But the local market was “very competitive,” and NuMale’s Tucson location was losing money every month, Pulliam said.
