High-risk practice


A mole removal stall at the SS2 night market in Petaling Jaya.

THEY are not medical doctors but they call themselves “master” and carry out aesthetic procedures at night markets, counting on people’s insecurities.

These practitioners carry out mole removing procedures using toothpicks or needles while applying an unidentified and unlabelled substance without wearing gloves.

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