Health Minister Mark Butler has vowed to take urgent action to clean up the out-of-control cosmetic surgery industry after the extent of its problems was brought to light.
Health Minister Mark Butler has vowed to take urgent action to clean up the out-of-control cosmetic surgery industry and clamp down on doctors who call themselves cosmetic surgeons but don’t have proper surgical training., Butler said he was “appalled” by a video of TikTok star Dr Daniel Aronov slicing a woman’s abdomen while she was awake, then holding up a giant flap of skin like a trophy.“This is an industry that needs to be cleaned up,” he said.
However, Butler, who has been in the job since May, said he was meeting with state health ministers this week and cosmetic surgery was on the agenda. “We wouldn’t allow it in an anaesthetist. We wouldn’t allow it for psychiatrists or any other specialty, and we shouldn’t allow it in surgery.” Another patient, Ella Callis, went to hospital after a serious infection that she says “smelled like a dead animal”.The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency was aware of this and in April banned Ahmadi from cosmetic surgery but allowed him to continue to practice as a GP.“He liposucked someone’s liver multiple times,” she said.
“AHPRA haven’t just dropped the ball, they’re not even in the game,” she said. “This butchery of Aussies who’ve not been protected because of AHPRA failing to do their job properly simply cannot continue.
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