The national health department says it is concerned about the increasing number of cosmetic and aesthetic procedures being offered outside the regulated healthcare environment, which could lead to severe health problems.
According to spokesperson Foster Mohale, their concerns are, however, not with cosmetic surgery or aesthetic medicine as recognised healthcare services. Their concerns, he said, are with, among other things, the procedures performed in environments that do not meet accepted healthcare standards as well as the use of unregistered, counterfeit or illegally imported products.
This comes after two people were last month admitted to a Gauteng hospital with health complications, including kidney failure emanating from being injected with unregulated medication.
