The Official State Gazette (BOE) publishes this Saturday the order of the Ministry of Health that limits the practice of cosmetic surgery to professionals with specific training in this discipline, a measure with which the Government intends to stop intrusion in this activity and guarantee patient safety.
Specifically, it is the modification of the royal decree of 2003 that regulates the authorization of health centers, services and establishments, and will come into force this Sunday.
Health has decided to improve control over this activity given the increase in this type of interventions and the proliferation of centers that offer them, in order to guarantee that these procedures are carried out exclusively by professionals with the appropriate training and qualifications.
Congressional Petition
In this way, the ministry led by Mónica García complies with a non-legal proposal approved by Congress two years ago that urged the Government to “strengthen the regulations to prevent intrusion and ensure that all health activities are carried out by duly qualified professionals.
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Thus, the definition of the Aesthetic Surgery Care Unit is updated, which encompasses all activities and procedures related to aesthetic surgery, and its practice is restricted to professionals who have received the specific training necessary within their training program, who will only be able to do so. perform these surgeries in areas that are directly related to their medical specialty.
Victory for a victim’s family
Specifically, they will only be able to perform this type of medical operations with the specialty in Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery or another surgical or medical-surgical specialty that includes competencies in aesthetic surgery in their official training program.
The Minister of Health, Mónica García, has reported this measure through a video, highlighting that it is “an enormous victory for the family of Sara, a woman who unfortunately lost her life after undergoing an intervention in a health center. aesthetics that did not have the necessary guarantees.”
“We are taking an important step towards a safer health system, so that tragedies like Sara’s do not happen again,” the head of Health congratulated.
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