By IANS
Kuala Lumpur : The wife of a Malaysian MP is fighting for her life following a botched cosmetic surgery, prompting the government to plan guidelines for aesthetic medicine and surgery.
The ministry of health has picked up for questioning a doctor in his 30s who treated the woman. The doctor and the 44-year-old woman have not been named.
The woman is on a life-support machine at a private hospital and her condition is very critical, The New Straits Times said Sunday.
“All she wanted was to look good. She had an eye bag surgery, a tummy tuck and liposuction. Now she is unconscious and has been hooked to the life-support machine since last Friday,” the newspaper said.
“We are investigating and action will be taken against the doctor if he is found not qualified to do the surgery or (if he) had performed shoddy work,” director general of health Ismail Merican said.
A plastic surgeon who declined to be named said the woman could have suffered brain damage.
Merican said the ministry was coming out with guidelines on aesthetic medical practices.
“Those who want to go into such practice must have evidence-based training and procedure. We do not allow doctors who have completed a three-week correspondence programme to do aesthetic medicine and surgery,” he said.