2024-09-21 12:24:02
BarcelonaIn January 2022, Sara Gómez entered the operating room of a hospital in Murcia to perform liposculpture, a cosmetic surgery that involves removing the abdominal fat and repositioning it on the hips. A priori was a painless and quick operation, but it did not go well: the woman suffered twenty perforations in her stomach that ended up bleeding heavily and she had to spend a month admitted to the treatment center intensive care unit (ICU). The doctor is the one who operated on the woman, but he does not specialize in cosmetic surgery, but in heart surgery. Gómez’s results were so severe that he died. Now, the tolerance of his family has forced the Spanish government to intervene: from now on, only specialist doctors will be able to perform cosmetic procedures. In other words, doctors who have received training in Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery or another surgical or medical specialty that has special skills in cosmetic surgery in their official training program.
The Ministry of Health has published this Saturday the ministerial order establishing this new standard for the authorization of companies, services and health establishments to carry out cosmetic services. The constant increase in demand for this kind of intervention has led to the improvement of the fields and the professionals who give them, often without the necessary training to do them. “This reform is necessary because of the increase in beauty interventions and the need to ensure that they are performed by qualified professionals,” the minister, Mónica García defended.
This process change also makes it possible to strengthen the processes to prevent intrusion. In Catalonia, the Catalan Society of Reconstructive and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (SCCPRE) recently reported that at least half of aesthetic interventions are not performed by plastic surgeons, but by professionals who are not well qualified. “This situation has two important consequences: on the one hand, it can lead to serious complications, even death; and, on the other hand, it can translate to better results,” explains Dr. Jordi Mir to ARA, member of cosmetic surgery SCCPRE.
In fact, a study published by the group in which more than a hundred professionals from Catalonia specializing in plastic surgery took part showed how 90% said that at some point they had to correct a treatment or an intervention which it is normally done by a doctor without special skills.
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