The risks of going under the needle

Health, Beauty and Lifestyle with Denise McNamara

I hear there were collective howls of panic among a certain set of women across Galway a few months back when a particular junior doctor stopped practicing.  Dr David Kromer was travelling to salons in the city and county since at least 2018 running ‘Anti-Wrinkle Injectables’ clinics, offering Botox and dermal fillers at €300 a session.

He was the non-consultant hospital doctor accused of engaging in the inappropriate prescription of multiple medications to young mental health patients over a four-year period in the child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) unit in South Kerry.

Dr Kromer stopped practicing in October 2020 after the concerns raised by a whistleblower led to the setting up of a review. The results of that review, published in the Maskey report, found evidence that 46 children had suffered significant harm and 227 were exposed to the risk of significant harm due to his over-prescribing of medication.

While there is no suggestion that anything went wrong in his Galway aesthetic clinics, it does raise real concerns about the appalling lack of supervision of the sector.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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