Woman hospitalised after failed Brazilian butt lift at Glasgow hotel
EPICSTORIAN – A woman has been taken to hospital after a Brazilian buttock lift surgery at a Glasgow hotel failed.
According to the city council’s environmental health, inquiries has been launched into the incident, where the local authority has issued warning regarding risks of visiting many “quack” cosmetic surgery centers in the UK.
In a separate incident, thousands of pounds’ worth of unlicensed and unprescribed products used in cosmetic injections were seized from a warehouse in the north of the city in January, Sky News said.
Officers of Scotland’s Environmental Health services have initiated a collaboration with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to enforce the implementation of strict monitoring rules and guidelines against unauthorised “pop-up” cosmetic clinics operating in the United Kingdom.
Decisions were effective after concerns were raised by the public and Police Scotland about the type of products being stored, distributed and sold from the premises, said an independent source.
It also, in a separate report, informed that great number of unregulated products suchs unauthorised aesthetics were confiscated during the inspection.
Seized unauthorized products at the time of the ‘recent’ inspection included about 320 non-compliant needles/cannulas and 400 non-compliant dermal fillers, with over 180 illegally traded vials of botulinum toxin.
Convener of neighbourhood services, Councillor Ruairi Kelly raised concerns that there were various “aesthetic clinics in Glasgow” which did not qualify or “need to register with Healthcare Improvement Scotland”.
“Our environmental health team has received an increasing number of complaints about practices and procedures in Glasgow aesthetic clinics which don’t need to register with Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS),” Kelly said.
“Demand for these types of procedures is high and we are also finding that practitioners are travelling around the UK to hold pop-up clinics in locations that are not suitable for this type of treatment.
“Environmental health is currently investigating a recent incident where a woman was hospitalised after undergoing a Brazilian butt lift procedure in a Glasgow hotel.”
