Moroccan Lawmaker Warns of Health Risks from Unregulated Beauty Salons

In a written question addressed to the Minister of Health and Social Protection, the PAM deputy asked what measures he intends to take to put an end to this anarchy in the field of aesthetic medicine in Morocco. "What we are observing today is very serious and very frightening," Atrakin warns, noting that these beauty salons offer aesthetic services that require specialized medical training.

The deputy holds the Moroccans who frequent these salons "entirely responsible", as they "go there knowingly, knowing that they are addressing non-physicians to perform medical acts". In statements to the Al3omk website, the specialist explained that techniques such as "filler" and "botulinum toxin" injections known as Botox, platelet-rich plasma, mesotherapy, and laser hair removal are medical and cannot be performed by non-professionals.

Yet these salons engage in these medical practices without any training, even though they have obtained licenses to offer services such as hot wax hair removal, manicure, hairdressing and makeup. The doctor added that the purchase by these establishments of specific equipment is not enough to carry out these interventions, blaming the companies that deliver this equipment to these salons.

Increasingly, specialist plastic surgeons are receiving clients who have undergone poor interventions in these salons to correct the mistakes of these non-professionals who attract citizens with false advertising on social networks, Dr. Atrakin also denounces, deploring the fact that the victims refuse to take legal action against the owners of these establishments where they can contract infectious diseases such as AIDS.