2024-08-26 11:56:30
Britain’s The Guardian newspaper reported that 140 women had reached undisclosed agreements with the employers. Johnson & Johnson, Bard and Boston Scientificto pay for the damage caused by the wrong combination. These are used for “treat” urinary incontinence (usually after part), but these women (and many others around the world) have suffered from chronic pain, bladder and bowel problems, bleeding, and mesh erosion through the walls.
Most of the women, who will be compensated for the damages suffered, undergo revision surgeries remove the mesh and some continue to struggle with pain and other problems.
Obo meshes: Sequelae even away
What the women involved will receive will never be known, either now or forever, because these ambiguous contracts contain clauses of secret very strict But the reward will be in the millions, for sure.
The Guardian reports that the monkey manufacturers have already signed that’s a big deal in the United States, Australia and Scotland, and it has been Successful medical negligence claims against the NHS (UK public health service). An injured woman was compensated with at least one million pounds.
It is great news, it is the first successful collective action product liability in England. Paradoxically, the companies that will now have to pay for the suffering they have caused will compensate, but without realizing their responsibility…
And the issue is from a long time ago, as we have been publishing it for years. It’s 2017 health scandal: More than 800 women filed for the British public health service (NHS) and those performing these transvaginal procedures for the serious and life-threatening harm caused to them by the devices.
As mentioned above, in the United States the sentences are in the millions, up to 57 million dollars. Inside Australia just come a trial that benefited more than 1,350 women.
Since then, little has been said about this topic. But the problem remains. There are women who They cry from social networks for their right to health. They said that even once Once the meshes are removed, they are left with significant results..
A combination of sad stories
Since they began to be used in the mid-90s of the last century, monkey mesh implant They never stop causing problems. These prostheses are used to treat urinary incontinence and “flushing” of the pelvic organs after childbirth in women.
Its introduction into the market was done forcefully, with very little evidence of it effect and safety and therefore they are more in demand.
When introduced in 1998 as a new surgical treatment for urinary incontinence, the polypropylene mesh sling was hailed as a quick and easy fix for women and enthusiastically received by men. surgeons. Twenty years later, in the middle of claiming he has left thousands of women around the world eventually and irreversiblySurgical meshes are at the center of a storm protest.
There are tens of thousands Compensation claims around the worldThe medical profession is divided between supporters and detractors and major flaws have been revealed in the regulations that regulate medical devices.
Since the 1950s, surgical meshes have been used to repair abdominal hernias. In the 70s and 80s, gynecologists and urologists began to use them to treat uterine problems and urinary incontinence. It was in the 90s when, as explained, the first transvaginal meshes definitely for you.
The first meshes have to remove them from the market due to contaminationbut new and more models are made, ma without any clinical research proving its effectiveness and safetyalmost without control or with very short-term studies.
In 2011, the US FDA made a note about impact of meshes:
extrusion, protrusion, pain during intercourse, infection, bleeding, urinary disturbances, body perforation, chronic inflammation, etc., requiring its rational use restricted to urologists and gynecologists and comprehensive information for users«.
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