A&Es on alert for victims of botched fillers

Doctors say consumers are risking ‘life-altering’ consequences by opting for cheap fillers and are increasingly turning up in hospital emergency departments

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Professor Caitriona Ryan: health concerns Photo by Eoin O'Hara

It is almost a year since top dermatologists wrote to Minister for Health Simon Harris requesting an urgent meeting about issues that were “putting members of the public’s lives and safety at risk”.

The minister never met them.

The dermatologists also wrote to the head of the National Patient Safety Office (NPSO), which forms part of the Department of Health. That letter went unanswered, according to ...