Ajman: Two Filipinos, including a cook, were arrested for allegedly carrying out liposuction procedures at an apartment in Ajman.
Major Gaith Khalifa Al Kaabi, Director of Al Nuaimiya police station, said that an Emirati man, K.A.M., 31, filed a report against a Filipino man who he said injected him with some unspecified medicine to conduct a liposuction procedure, endangering his life.
The police asked K.A.M. to call the suspect and schedule another liposuction appointment, which was to be conducted at the suspect’s apartment in Al Nuaimiya area.
Police raided the suspect’s home after obtaining a search warrant from the public prosecution and found two suspects, M.F.B. and J.A.A., both from the Philippines.
The apartment looked like a clinic with a reception area, a treatment room with medical equipment and products. Another room had a hospital bed for carrying out cosmetic procedures and a medical uniform.
Police seized all the equipment, which the two had no licence to operate. Police found out that M.F.B. was an investor and J.A.A. is a cook and both were not qualified or licensed to practise medicine.
There was no signboard indicating that the apartment was a clinic.
The two suspects were arrested and their case was transferred to the public prosecution.
Maj Al Kaabi urged the public not to be deceived by fake clinics and only go to licensed and accredited clinics and hospitals.
Dr Ioannis Michail Salivaras, Specialist Plastic Surgeon at Prime Hospital, Dubai, said that undergoing a liposuction procedure being performed by an unlicensed practitioner could be life-threatening.
He added that liposuction is a complex surgical procedure that should only be carried out by a trained plastic surgeon with a valid medical licence to practise in the UAE in a sterile operating room where the equipment used is approved and tested daily to ensure it is snag-free.
“If carried out by unlicensed doctors with crude equipment it can be life-threatening as the doctor needs to be sure of the proportion of fat he is suctioning out. Usually it is up to five to six per cent of the total body weight, which is about four litres of fat at one time. If the person is not trained and suctions out more than that, it can result in too much loss of blood and can result in brain dysfunction and even death,” he said.
- With inputs from Suchitra Chaudhary, Senior Reporter
