(AP) — Venezuela is offering free surgeries for women to remove faulty French-made breast implants, the country’s top health official said.
Health Minister Eugenia Sader said women with implants made by the now-defunct French company Poly Implant Prothese may go to hospitals that carry out plastic surgery to have the implants removed, the state-run Venezuelan News Agency reported.
Sader said Tuesday that the free procedure will simply be to remove the implants and will not include replacing them.
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