A Parliamentary inquiry commenced regarding the NSW Cosmetic Institute’s failure to employ experienced and qualified surgeons to perform breast augmentation surgery.
Approximately 220 former patients have commenced a class action against the Institute, Australia’s largest cosmetic surgery clinic, for the life-threatening complications they received as a result of the poorly performed procedures. The whistleblower described that these surgeries were advertised as costing “a cup of coffee a day” and were marketed towards women of lower socio-economic status.
The findings into the Cosmetic Institute are part of the larger parliamentary inquiry into the cosmetic industry undertaken by the NSW Government.
Read more about the inquiry here