The Ministry of Health has modified the decree authorizing health centers to limit the possibility of doctors specialized in plastic surgery to perform cosmetic surgery operations. The head of Health, Mónica García, defended this Saturday that with this measure, “we are moving towards a safer health system, avoiding intrusions and protecting patients.”
The ministerial decree was approved on Wednesday, was published this Saturday in the Official State Gazette (BOE) and will come into force this Sunday. With it, an annex to the 2003 decree was modified, referring to the definition of a cosmetic surgery care unit.
From now on, these centres will only be admitted if “a doctor specialising in plastic, aesthetic and reconstructive surgery or another surgical specialty or a doctor is responsible for carrying out surgical treatments aimed at the aesthetic improvement of the body, face or hair”. surgical in the field and the skills indicated in the official programme of his/her specialty.
Qualified professionals
The Ministry, in a statement, stressed this Saturday that “the modification is necessary due to the increase in aesthetic interventions and the need to ensure that they are carried out by qualified professionals.”
“The significant increase in cosmetic surgical procedures and the proliferation of centres that offer them have generated a growing social and health demand for better control of this activity”, which is why Health intends to “guarantee that these procedures are carried out exclusively by professionals with the “adequate skills”, training and qualification.”
Furthermore, he recalled that Congress approved a non-legislative proposal in 2022 with the same objective: “strengthening regulations to prevent intrusions and ensuring that all health activities are carried out by duly qualified professionals.”
The Minister of Health, Mónica García, stressed this Saturday in a video: “This measure is, without a doubt, a huge victory for the family of Sara, a woman who unfortunately lost her life after undergoing an intervention in a beauty center that did not have the necessary guarantees.
He thus referred to Sara Gómez, a 39-year-old woman from Alcantarilla (Murcia) who died in January 2022 after liposculpture, a type of liposuction, which was performed on her in Cartagena.
“Her family’s struggle was essential to achieve this important change. We are taking an important step towards a safer health system, so that tragedies like Sara’s do not happen again,” said Mónica García.
