The PSOE takes its motion to the plenary session so that cosmetic surgery is performed by professionals with “officially recognized qualifications”
The Sara Gómez case arrived at the Congress of Deputies on Tuesday with a non-law proposal presented by the socialist deputy Marisol Sánchez Jódar, who appealed to the “seamless unanimity and without objections” of the parliamentary groups to promote legal changes that make it possible to curb “intrusiveness” and bad practices in the field of cosmetic surgery. “Sara went to a clinic that advertised itself as an international benchmark and that put a doctor who lacked the specialty in the operating room,” she lamented.
Citing the Spanish Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, the deputy from Lorca warned that “eight out of ten aesthetic procedures are not performed by the appropriate professionals.” Hence, it is urgent to “promote the necessary actions” to ensure that “all health activities are carried out by medical professionals who have officially recognized qualifications.”
The keys of the motion
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Set common criteria on the control and compliance with the regulations, together with the autonomous communities and within the Interterritorial Health Council, of the health centers authorized to practice cosmetic surgery. -
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Provide patients with information on the skills and techniques that Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery specialists and other medical specialists can perform in accordance with the skills of the official training program for their specialty. -
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Modify the Royal Decree establishing the general bases for the authorization of health centers, services and establishments in order to strengthen the guarantees that all health activities are carried out by professionals who have officially recognized qualifications. -
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Fight for the eradication of any intrusiveness and pseudoscience.
The motion will be voted on this Thursday, and will likely have broad support. During the afternoon of this Tuesday, the PSOE negotiated the inclusion of PP amendments, while Podemos, ERC and PNV announced their favorable vote.
Although this initiative has been baptized as the ‘Sara Law’, in reality the proposal is committed to the modification of various regulations. Thus, it is proposed to summon the Government to review the Royal Decree that establishes the general bases on the authorization of health centers, services and establishments “in order to strengthen the guarantees that all health activities are carried out by professionals who have the official qualification recognised.” The Ministry is also requested to “provide patients with information on the skills and techniques that specialists in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery and other medical specialists can perform.” The motion also calls for the “fight” against “any intrusiveness” and calls for “setting common criteria on control and compliance with regulations” with the autonomous communities, within the framework of the Interterritorial Council.
“It is a very important step to fight against intrusion”
Sara Gómez’s family entered the Congress of Deputies on Tuesday “very hopeful.” The approval of the non-law proposal will be “a very important step”, since Congress urges “to modify laws to avoid legal loopholes and to fight against intrusion and misleading advertising”, stressed Rubén Gómez, Sara’s brother and spokesman of the family.
One of the most important aspects is “forcing informed consent to specify in great detail the specialty of the doctor who is going to perform the intervention.” Currently, professionals without the specialty of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery advertise themselves as “aesthetic or cosmetic surgeons, with ambiguous puns behind which there is no official and approved training,” Rubén Gómez stressed.
a first step
Marisol Sánchez Jódar announced that the Ministry is already working on one of the proposed changes: the creation of a registry that citizens can easily access, through the web, to check if the health professional who is going to attend them has the appropriate specialty , or who claims to possess.
From the PP, the deputy Elvira Velasco agreed on the need to modify the Royal Decree that regulates the authorization of health establishments, but regretted that the PSOE had voted against her proposals to regulate health advertising. “It was a law that sought to improve the quality and accuracy of advertising, with the aim of avoiding situations that have generated serious damage,” said Velasco. The PSOE finally included several amendments to the PP. Among them, an appeal to comply with the Law of Patient Autonomy, as well as a summons to the Government to “establish the obligation to possess the title of specialist doctor included in our legal system, for the professional practice of all medical specialties and the performance of the functions of each of them.
Citizens have also put their proposals on the table. Among them, carrying out a study “to find out” how far the intrusion reaches in all health activity, “and that the planned sanctions are applied.” Meanwhile, Vox called for “improving information about professionals and about the medical procedures for which they are trained and authorized.”
The College of Physicians demands that the measures be agreed with the professionals
The president of the College of Physicians of the Region, Francisco Miralles, believes that a “regulation” is essential to bring order to the field of cosmetic surgery, and is committed to the Ministry of Health establishing common regulations. Of course, not without first listening to the professionals, represented in “medical colleges and scientific societies.”
Any national legislation must then be developed, and applied, by the communities, which also have room for action within their powers. Hence, Miralles also urges the Ministry of Health to sit down with the scientific societies and the College. “We have the promise of a meeting soon, but it has not happened,” he lamented.
The president of the Association does not assess the proposal approved this Tuesday in Congress, which he claims not to know, although he warns that the degree in Medicine enables one to “do everything”, as long as “there is adequate training”. In this sense, not having the MIR specialty is not an impediment to performing aesthetic interventions in private healthcare, according to “jurisprudence”, he explains. Of course, “one cannot promote himself as a specialist in something in which he is not,” he recalls.
Miralles is committed to a regulation that determines “what training, experience and curriculum” doctors who dedicate themselves to the field of aesthetics must have, “and under what conditions” this assistance must be carried out. For the president of the College of Physicians, it is the scientific societies that “must determine what training is needed.”
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