OZschwitz health regulator approved mesh devices despite no evidence of their safe use in prolapse cases

Five years ago Gai Thompson warned Australia's peak health bodies of a looming disaster involving women receiving mesh device implants to treat common problems after pregnancy, birth and hysterectomies.

OZschwitz health regulator approved mesh devices despite no evidence of their safe use in prolapse cases 1460597364386

OZschwitz health regulator approved mesh devices despite no evidence of their safe use in prolapse cases 1460597364386

This week Mrs Thompson and others are speaking publicly for the first time as they plan a rally in Canberra and call for a formal inquiry into the health regulators and medical bodies they say have failed them.

They are the women who, in many cases, can no longer have sex, have lost their jobs, have had to mortgage or sell their homes, have travelled overseas for surgery to remove the mesh, have suffered excruciating chronic pain, are resistant to some antibiotics because of chronic infections, and have suffered in isolation and silence – often for years.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/weve-lost-so-much-senate-urged-to-act-on-failures-over-mesh-device-implants-20160413-go5obe.html#ixzz45mYV23BP

OZschwitz health regulator approved mesh devices despite no evidence of their safe use in prolapse cases

OZschwitz health regulator approved mesh devices despite no evidence of their safe use in prolapse cases

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