Sara Gómez died on January 1, 2022, following liposculpture. performed by a cardiovascular surgeon without a specialty in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery. His parents, Damián and Felisa, and his siblings, Rubén and Nora, cried a sea of tears, but they did not give up in the face of such a harsh end because they launched a campaign to regulate the beauty clinic sector and this Saturday they received the award for 2 years, 9 months and 21 days of effort: The BOE issued what is called the “Sara Law”.
“We are satisfied and excited after this long journey. This Sara law means that Now, no doctor can perform cosmetic surgery because it is quite limited.“Only surgeons specialized in plastic, aesthetic and reconstructive surgery and doctors from a series of specialties who, in their academic training plan, have assigned aesthetic tasks in a given area, will be able to do it,” as Rubén Gómez explains didactically.
in the prctica, the order signed by the Minister of Health, Mónica García Gómez, and published this Saturday by the Official State Gazette (BOE), means that a doctor, by virtue of a medical degree, such as a dentist, You will no longer be able to go to the operating room of a cosmetic center to place a breast implant on a patientThis situation has arisen until now because any doctor could enter a private operating room, regardless of his specialty.
From now on, only doctors with the specialty in their training program will be able to perform cosmetic surgery operations.
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This order from Minister Mónica García Gómez will affect, upon publication in the BOE: the 7,322 centers with an aesthetic medicine unit that the Ministry of Health has registered throughout the country. The The Spanish Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery estimates that more than 204,000 cosmetic surgery procedures are performed each year in Spain:85% of patients are women, aged 30 to 44, and 15% are men. Women mainly request: breast augmentation operations and liposuction. While men usually undergo blepharoplasty, rhinoplasty or gynecomastia.
“Give some examples of specialties that can perform cosmetic operationsAn ENT doctor can perform ear surgery or rhinoplasty; an ophthalmologist, an eyelid surgery and a maxillofacial surgeon will do it in his field, which is the face,” according to Rubén Gómez, a civil guard by profession who, after the death of his sister, has become the scourge of the private sector. aesthetic sector that annually invoices 3.5 billion euros in our country -according to a study by the Spanish Society of Aesthetic Medicine-.
Sara Gómez’s relatives, on September 15, 2022, at the Congress of Deputies, with members of the Secpre and the PSOE councilor in the Alcantarilla City Hall, Carolina Salinas, and the regional deputy at the time, Lara Hernández, when The ‘Sera law’ was approved as a non-legal proposal.
The so-called “Law of Sarah” It was approved in the Congress of Deputies on September 15, 2022.like a Proposed non-law on cosmetic surgery and the fight against intrusions and pseudoscienceswhat was promoted by the PSOE, including a PP amendment on medical specialties and clinical documentation.
Vox was andThe only party that did not support this regulation to end the intrusion of the medical profession into the aesthetics sector. Ultimately, this non-law proposal became one or moredecree amending the royal decree establishing the general bases for authorisation of health centres, services and establishments. Specifically, the amendment concerns Annex II of the aforementioned royal decree, which includes the definitions of centres, care units and health establishments.
The late Sara Gómez, on the beach, in an image provided by her family.
“In recent years, there has been a continued increase in surgical interventions for cosmetic purposes. and the opening of health centers that include among their services, the offer of cosmetic surgery care”, as supported by the ministerial decree published this Saturday in the Official State Gazette. “Different social and health demands have required regulatory changes, in order to achieve better control of the development of this health activity with the guarantee that it is carried out by professionals with the appropriate skills and qualifications.
“In this sense, the plenary session of the Congress of Deputies of September 22, 2022 approved with modifications, the non-legislative proposal of the socialist parliamentary group on cosmetic surgery and the fight against intrusions and pseudosciences, which urges the Government to modify Royal Decree 1277/2003, of October 10, with the aim of strengthening the corresponding articles of the norm, in order to avoid any intrusion and ensure that all health activities are carried out by professionals with officially recognised qualifications”.
These paragraphs respond to the campaign led by Sara Gómez’s relatives, “so that there are no more Saras in Spain”, because this Luxury villa real estate agent, 39 years old and mother of two childrencontracted liposculpture with a cardiovascular surgeon without a specialty in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery.
The parents and siblings of the late Sara Gómez, in September 2022, in the Congress of Deputies, after the approval of the proposal for a non-law against medical intrusion.
The operation took place on December 2, in an operating room of the private clinic Virgen de la Caridad in Cartagena, but the consequences he suffered were such that he ended up being admitted to the intensive care unit of the Santa Lucía hospital where he died 29 days later. to motivate the opening of a legal case that has not yet been judged against the said doctor and the anesthetist who assisted him.
In fact, Rubén Gómez tells EL ESPAÑOL that his family, after obtaining the “Sara law”, will “fight” for the next challenge: “We had two objectives, we achieved the first and now we are heading towards the second, which is to go to jail for the surgeon and the anesthesiologist.”
For now, the first victory of the Gómez family against the giant of private cosmetic surgery is already a reality. All this, because the ministerial decree published in the BOE this Saturday, after consultation with the 17 autonomous communitiesremember that “The training programs for each medical specialty include the definition of the specialty and its scope of action.” With this paragraph, the Ministry of Health pays justice to the death of Sara – a resident of Alcantarilla -:
“For all of the above, It is necessary to update the definition of the care unit “U.47 cosmetic surgery” of Annex II of the Royal Decree subject to amendment, being reserved for the surgical or medical-surgical specialties of Section 1 of Annex I of Royal Decree 183/2008, of 8 February, which are competent to practice cosmetic surgery in accordance with the content of their respective training programs”. Each shoemaker to his shoes.
