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12/01/2012
Health Service Will Not Replace Cosmetic PIP Implants
Northern Ireland’s Health Minister has revealed that women who received controversial PIP breast implants for health reasons will have them replaced free of charge.
However Edwin Poots went on to say that those who got them for cosmetic reasons can have them removed for free but not replaced.
Around 40,000 British women have received the implants which were filled with silicone which was intended for use in mattresses.
Elsewhere in the UK a medical company, which fitted almost 14,000 British women with PIP breast implants, has said they will not be replacing them free of charge.
The Harley Medical group is among many private medical firms to be affected by the now closed French company’s, Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), faulty implants which were filled with non-medical grade silicone.
The Private firm fitted more of the implants than any other UK cosmetic firm but they have said to replace the branded implants free of charge would put them out of business.
Meanwhile Transform, another private company, have also said they will not replace the implants free of charge either.
(LB)
However Edwin Poots went on to say that those who got them for cosmetic reasons can have them removed for free but not replaced.
Around 40,000 British women have received the implants which were filled with silicone which was intended for use in mattresses.
Elsewhere in the UK a medical company, which fitted almost 14,000 British women with PIP breast implants, has said they will not be replacing them free of charge.
The Harley Medical group is among many private medical firms to be affected by the now closed French company’s, Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), faulty implants which were filled with non-medical grade silicone.
The Private firm fitted more of the implants than any other UK cosmetic firm but they have said to replace the branded implants free of charge would put them out of business.
Meanwhile Transform, another private company, have also said they will not replace the implants free of charge either.
(LB)
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