Seek professional help for all cosmetic surgeries - Plastic surgeon urges Ghanaians

The Head of the Plastics Surgery Unit at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Dr Paa Ekow Hoyte-Williams, has appealed to Ghanaians, particularly women who want to enhance their physique through plastic surgery, to consult qualified personnel for the procedure.

He said there were a lot of people in the system posing as cosmetic surgeons, performing and injecting people with all sorts of steroids which in the long run deformed their clients.

He said the unit had recorded three of such cases where quack surgeons had injected women who wanted to enhance their buttocks with substances that rather deformed them.

“I do not know of any drug or injection that you can inject into the buttocks for it to become big,” he said.

Hope

In an interview with the Daily Graphic, Dr Hoyte-Williams said there was still hope for such people as the unit could salvage the situation.

He said there were surgical ways of enhancing the buttocks and not through any injection, and asked the public to be wary of where they went for such procedures.

According to him, there were well qualified doctors in the country and at KATH to perform all sorts of cosmetic and aesthetic surgeries to make people feel good about themselves.

He said the unit performed both reconstructive and aesthetic surgeries and asked those in need of such services to always seek professional assistance.

However, he said there was the need for people desiring to have one procedure or the other to know the pros and cons of it before deciding.

Education

Consequently, Dr Hoyte-Williams said the unit would be organising a public forum dubbed: “KATH International Breast and Aesthetics Surgery” from yesterday, February 10, 2020 to educate the public on cosmetic surgeries.

“We want the public to know what cosmetic surgery is about and what it is not,” he said.

He said the forum would focus on reconstructive breast surgery for those who had lost their breasts through cancer and also those who wanted to give their breasts a facelift.

“Aesthetic breast surgery is a surgery that enhances the look of the breast and builds the confidence of the individual,” he said.

According to him, one could have a surgery to increase or reduce the size of the breast and even lift the breast.

Promotion

Dr Hoyte-Williams said the unit would be running a special promotion for those who would want to have breast surgeries, especially “those who want their breasts to be increased or want the breast to stand firm”.

He, thus, called on all those who sought these services to take advantage of the promotion and book for their procedure.