Is there anything wrong with our medical tourism?


ON Dec 18, 2017, Australian Broadcasting Corporation News reported a fatal case of medical tourism in Malaysia, but this was given little coverage here.

The news centred on an Australian coroner’s inquest over the death in 2014 of 31-year old Australian medical tourist Leigh Aiple, who paid RM109,530 (A$35,000) for a 360-degree tummy tuck, extensive liposuction, an upper eye lift, a chin tuck, a thigh lift, chest sculpting and lip filler. All these were done in the space of five days in Malaysia.

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