NCAC: Go to licensed aesthetic clinics


Botched job: Tan (right) with the NCAC Penang chapter president Dr Deric Ho looking at a complaint in Jalan Perai Jaya, Bandar Perai Jaya, Butterworth. — CHAN BOON KAI/The Star

BUTTERWORTH: The public has been advised to choose licensed aesthetic surgery experts to avoid becoming victims of botched operations.

The caution came after the National Consumer Action Council (NCAC) in Penang discovered that a plastic surgeon’s clinic was a beauty shop adorned with “medical certificates” that were not recognised in Malaysia.

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