Urgent call to shut down ‘rogue BBL clinics’ after mum, 33, becomes first in UK to die from dodgy op

SHUT down rogue butt-lift clinics and lone fto qualified doctors bash them, apical surgeons person warned.

The Joint Council of Cosmetic Practitioners issued the plea connected Thursday aft a 33-year-old Brit mum died successful September pursuing a botched BBL.

Brazilian butt-lifts, besides known arsenic buttock augmentation procedures, impact injecting abdominous oregon filler into the bum to signifier it.

But wrongly injecting excessively heavy into the buttock tin pump chemicals into the bloodstream and cause deadly clots, infections oregon sepsis.

They tin besides spell incorrect if the anaesthetic is bungled oregon radical person allergies.

Two radical were arrested connected suspicion of manslaughter aft mum-of-five Alice Webb, from Gloucestershire, died successful September pursuing complications of the procedure.

She became the archetypal idiosyncratic to dice this mode successful Britain, though others person suffered fatal ordeals aft country abroad.

UK regularisation is lax arsenic they tin beryllium considered “non-surgical” and untrained beauticians tin get the kit to bash them.

The JCCP said BBLs indispensable beryllium classified arsenic surgical procedures and strictly controlled truthful that lone qualified, registered and experienced plastic surgeons tin bash them.

The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, which lone precocious ended a four-year plea for members not to bash the process astatine all, co-signed the report.

The Sun has called connected ministers to tighten regularisation of fillers and cosmetic procedures successful our Had Our Fill campaign.

Elaine Sassoon, a subordinate of the BAAPS council, said: “The cosmetic assemblage faces a deficiency of regularisation for unlicensed aesculapian practitioners.

“This puts people’s health astatine superior risk, peculiarly with buttock fillers for BBL. 

“While specializer surgeons travel information guidelines, untrained individuals tin inject unsafe, bulk-purchased products successful unregulated settings.”

The study said the aforesaid rules should beryllium applied to immoderate procedures connected the genitals oregon breasts.

It said: “These procedures should lone beryllium performed by appropriately trained specializer integrative surgeons and afloat qualified General Medical Council registered aesculapian doctors who person further qualifications and person proven competence.”

Tragic mum told she didn't request enactment done

Alice Webb, herself an aesthetic practitioner, had travelled to a grooming league wherever she would larn however to execute the process earlier having her ain done.

But cops rushed to a location astatine astir 11.30pm that nighttime aft the alarm was raised, with ambulances already astatine the scene.

Alice was taken to Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary but died successful the aboriginal hours of Tuesday, September 24.

The calamity happened aft her cousin, Dianna Webb, told her she did not request the procedure.

A tearful Dianna, who calls herself Alice’s “second mum” arsenic she helped rise her, told The Sun: “We had talked astir it a batch earlier she went to person the procedure.

“She had told maine she was going to person this done and I said she didn’t request it - she already looked beautiful.

“And she was stunning connected her own.

“We were connected the telephone for 2 hours earlier she went. Alice said they seemed truly nonrecreational and enactment her astatine easiness astir the procedure.

“She was not 1 of these radical that would spell and conscionable person thing done without looking astatine each small item first, evidently due to the fact that she worked successful the manufacture too.

“Alice enactment her bosom into her work.

"She took each people she could take, including this one, due to the fact that she wanted to marque definite she got everything right.”

Dianna said her household would request the authorities prohibition liquid BBL injections to marque definite Alice’s decease was “the archetypal and the last” connected British shores.

A Department of Health spokesperson said: “Our deepest sympathies are with Alice’s household and friends successful this tragic case, which is incredibly concerning.

“The information of patients is paramount, and we would impulse anyone considering a cosmetic process to see the imaginable wellness impacts and find a reputable, insured, and qualified practitioner.

“Work is ongoing to research options astir oversight of the non-surgical cosmetics assemblage and we volition supply an update astatine the earliest opportunity.”