Boob job gone wrong

Star: KUALA LUMPUR: Believing that big is beautiful, a 31-year-old woman went for a boob job. The result devastated her.
The woman, who wants to be known only as Tay, said she went for plastic surgery to enlarge her breasts in November 2005 at the advice of a beautician.
After a month, she felt an excruciating pain where the so-called surgeon had injected her.
She had paid RM6,400 to beautify her assets and received half the money back after she went back to the Taiwanese surgeon to complain about her condition.
He promised to refer her to a “specialist,'' saying that the other surgeon would remove whatever substance was causing the pain in her breasts.
The doctor, who claimed to have dozens of certificates from all over the world, went missing after six months and the “specialist” he promised never surfaced.
Repeated attempts to reach the Taiwanese “doctor” have failed and the beautician who introduced him to her has also denied she had anything to do with the botched surgery.
Tay has now brought her problem to MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Datuk Michael Chong, who said he would bring up her case – and other similar cases – with the Health Ministry.
Relating the events at Chong’s office yesterday, Tay told reporters that she wanted the breast enlargement to please her husband.
She said she trusted her beautician, who brought her to a hotel in Johor Baru where the four-hour surgery was done.
She told her husband about it a month later when she felt the pain.
“After confronting the Taiwanese doctor in Kuala Lumpur about the pain, he refunded me RM3,200 and said that he would find another specialist to remove the substance from my body,” Tay said.
“Until today I have not heard from him again,” she added.
The substance that was injected into Tay was later identified as something only to be used on the face.
“The beautician later denied everything about the surgery and the employment of the Taiwanese doctor.
“In March, I felt several lumps on my breasts, and after consulting a medical doctor he told me that I need to have both my breasts removed as the lumps were cancerous,” said Tay.
Chong said he would bring the matter up with the Health Ministry regarding “quack doctors” running businesses here.
“It is not wrong for women to go for plastic surgeries but please consult the many qualified surgeons throughout Malaysia,” he added.