Given the risk it poses to the lives of thousands of people, Morena senators seek regulate the practice of surgery and cosmetic proceduresand oblige those who carry out this type of internship to be health professionals who have a degree or specialty certificate and professional license that authorizes them to practice.
The initiative promoted by senators for Morena, Jose Ramon Enriquez Herrera y Jose Narro Cespedesexposes that in Mexico there is a boom of thousands of “duckling” clinics and aesthetics that are not being monitored by the authorities and where cases of medical negligence with severe damage to the health or even the death of those who come for some surgery or aesthetic treatment.
This initiative that seeks to reform the General Health Law establishes that the main objective is whoever performs any aesthetic medicine treatment in Mexico has a medical degree and categorically prohibits that aesthetic spas and gyms may not perform any aesthetic medicine procedure such as Are the botox and botulinum toxin applications as well as other procedures.
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Procedures can cause irreversible damage
Senator José Ramón Enríquez said that for every death due to cosmetic surgery malpractice there are hundreds of cases of people who are affected by the malpractice of aesthetic medicine where personnel who do not have the certification or the necessary studies work, which is a serious risk to the health of thousands of Mexicans who resort to those sites.
“In Mexico, hundreds or thousands of beauty salons, spas, and gyms perform procedures that can cause irreversible damage in the hands of people who are not doctors and have no knowledge of aesthetic medicine. Every year there are hundreds of cases of people who have been affected. Even the subject has been exposed before the President of the Republic in the morning conferences”, said Narro Céspedes.
The reform that adds Chapter III Bis, Aesthetic Medicine, and Article 115 Bis, both of the General Health Law, indicates that “aesthetic medicine is intended to carry out medical and cosmetic practices, relating to different therapeutic areas of small interventionism, in which topical or local anesthesia is used and an outpatient regimen”.
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It is added in the reform project that “only health professionals may carry out aesthetic medicine treatments that have a degree or specialty certificate and professional license that empowers them to carry out specific studies in said subject, issued by higher education institutions or officially recognized health institutions.
“It is prohibited to carry out aesthetic medicine treatments in establishments or medical units that do not comply with the respective sanitary provisions contained in this Law, and in the other applicable regulations”, it is added in the initiative that will be presented in the coming days in the Commission Permanent Congress of the Union.
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