VIDEO ABOVE: Botched Beauty: Horror Scenes from Australia's Backyard Beauty Clinics
An unregistered nurse who had never prepared anaesthetic before she took part in a fatal breast enlargement operation in a Sydney clinic has avoided a jail term.
Chinese woman Yueqiong Fu filled five syringes with an anaesthetic and delivered a pain killer intravenously before beauty clinic owner Jean Huang's heart stopped on the operating table of a Chippendale clinic in late August 2017.
Today, Downing Centre District Court Judge Sharon Harris noted Fu had already spent 51 days in custody, before handing her a two-year good behaviour bond and ordering she complete 150 hours of community service.
It's understood she'll also have to undergo psychological treatment. Fu remains in the country on a Criminal Justice Visa, but will eventually be deported back to China.
Worrying cases in the cosmetic surgery industry
A 2018 investigation by The Feed uncovered some uncomfortable truths about the cosmetic surgery industry in Australia.
Some illegal practitioners were found to be pretending to be registered doctors.
The Feed's investigation uncovered a separate woman operating out of a fancy office block in Melbourne's CBD, who had been using fake certificates and credentials to assure potential clients.
As well as injectables and eyelid surgery, she offered breast fillers – the same procedure that Jean Huang was undergoing when she went into cardiac arrest.
When approached by The Feed, this fake doctor said, "We just do micro surgery, it's not a surgery actually."
These problematic cases have many people calling for a more regulated industry.
"Unless the governments around Australia come together to ensure that there are proper regulations in place, we will have more people die, we will have more people harmed, and it will become an industry that becomes impossible to regulate," said Merrilyn Walton, a former NSW Health Care Complaints Commissioner.
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