BANGKOK, 13 January 2012 (NNT) – Thailand’s Public Health Ministry has continued to close down illegal beauty clinics. Just recently, it has closed a clinic in Bangkok-Ramkhamhaeng area,with the hope of clamping down on three more of its branches.
Pasit Sakdanarong, Advisor to the Public Health Minister, yesterday led officials from the Department of Health Service Support and police to arrest operators of Porn Vimol Clinic on the opposite side of the Ramkhamhaeng University.
The clinic owner had neither a permit to operate the clinic nor a medical license. Police found many illegal medicines and medical devices such as steroid, Botox, glutathione, AHA, and laser equipment. Initially the owner has been charged with operating a clinic without a permit and practicing medicine without a license.
The owner said she had graduated in Western medicine but admitted that she did not have a medical license. The police are going to raid three more of its branches.
Mr Pasit has warned people to make sure that the beauty clinics they go to are legal, saying some medicines are illegal and medical equipment must be operated only by professionals , or it can be lethal.
Reporter: Nuttaporn Chanchokpong – NNT
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