Letter: Moral duty over breast implants
FORTY thousand women in Britain - including I am sure a number in Crawley - have received breast implants mainly from private clinics, which it now transpires were filled illegally with an inferior grade of industrial silicone not intended for human use.
Many of these women are now very nervous and want the implants removed and replaced. French, German and Czech authorities have recommended that women in those countries with the defective implants should have them removed. And yet here in Britain, the private companies that fitted the majority of these implants have refused to replace them on the grounds of cost, blaming the government for failing to regulate them sufficiently!
These companies were more than happy to take the money from these women when it made them a profit but now refuse to accept their moral responsibility to ensure their patients’ health and safety.
the government must step in and force these greedy, uncaring institutions to accept they have a duty of care towards their patients.
John Keaveney, Crawley
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