While an appeal court in France has decided in favour of compensation for thousands of women worldwide with breast implants, in a similar nightmare unfolding here in Nanjing, a lady has had four litres of liquid removed from her swollen chest.
It was reported yesterday that victims in the PIP breast implant scandal should be entitled to receive compensation. Up to 400,000 women around the world are believed to have undergone the treatment in which they received breast implants made by French company, Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP), between 2001 and 2010.
After the company went under, it emerged that the implants were in fact illegal, being filled with industrial-grade silicone, reported the BBC.
While women in Europe and Latin America were the most likely victims, here in China, another breast implant scandal was also beginning to unfold, one in which a Nanjing lady has finally found an absolution in recent days.
More than 20 years ago, the woman, surnamed Wang, received a series of six injections of “Amazingel” as a means for breast augmentation.
Amazingel is a colourless and transparent liquid polyacrylamide gel, which was put into use in 1999 and certified in China by the forerunner of today’s State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA).
While the compound itself is non-toxic, it may decompose over time to cause severe toxicity. As a result, the SFDA revoked the certification in April of 2006.
But up to 300,000 women in China had already been injected, with Amazingel then in common use across the beauty industry.
For Ms. Wang in Nanjing, her adverse reaction to the Amazingel injections began about a year ago. With increasingly itchy skin, her chest eventually swelled to be the size of a volleyball, reported The Paper on Wednesday of this week.
Recently, Wang was at long last able to have a chest injection removal operation. During the procedure, doctors took out approximately 2000 ml of a soy-colored, oily liquid from the side of each of her breasts.
As a result of the all-too-frequent incidence of adverse reactions to Amazingel, many plastic surgery outfits are now offering procedures to remove that which they injected over a decade ago.
Despite its revoked certification, the product remains available on the market in China.
