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UK Clinics Refuse to Pay for Breast Implant Removal (newsy-allvideos)
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**BY LAISHI ZHOU**
**ANCHOR NATHAN BYRNE**
Britain’s National Health Service says providers of Poly Implants Prostheses
(PIP) breast implants should remove or replace those implants in women, but
major UK clinics are refusing to do so.
The chairman of Harley Medical Group – a private UK cosmetic surgery firm,
tells the BBC replacing the implants for free would put them out of business.
“We don’t have finance; we don’t have the resources; we don’t have hospitals;
we don’t have the GPs; we don’t have the facilities. We don’t geared up for
that type of facilities, and the NHS is geared up for that sort of facilities.
This is a missive problem created by the government agency, and they must
accept more responsibility.”
The implants made worldwide news in December when the French government said
it would replace implants for French women who had them. The implants were
found to be filled with a silicone not approved for medical use and to have
high rupture rates, though Britain has maintained they don’t necessarily cause
breast cancer and other diseases. The Telegraph explains the UK government’s
stance.
“[The health secretary] said private healthcare providers were under a …
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