Four aesthetic institutions are suspended due to lack of qualifications for “health care” in Sintra.

The Health Regulatory Authority (ERS) has suspended four beauty salons for providing “medical care” by unqualified professionals as part of inspection activities in Lisbon and Agualva, Sintra municipality.

The intervention, announced by ERS, was carried out after complaints. During site visits, it was found that procedures were being carried out that required the use of medicines and devices “exclusively for physicians”.

The services sold at these premises included invasive procedures for injecting/injecting products into the skin, namely, “stretch threads, botulinum toxin, hyaluronic acid, biostimulants, multivitamins and other solutions, mole removal, PRP procedures – platelet-rich plasma, liposuction with use of a diode laser (strict medical act) and the use of focused ultrasound equipment for the exclusive use of a physician,” ERS said in a statement.

“Given the established facts and the immediate danger to the health and safety of users, the SES has taken precautionary measures to immediately stop the activities carried out in the four supervised institutions, on the basis of unqualified medical care in the “aesthetics” territory,” the supervisory authority said.

Facilities will be able to reopen when it is proven to “remove the danger to the health and safety of users”, which could lead to a “permanent cessation of medical activities”.

The situation was reported to the Ministry of Health. “All the facts collected by ERS are analyzed within the framework of competent administrative and sanctions procedures, namely with respect to compliance with the requirements for the implementation of activities, organization and functioning, applicable to activities carried out in targeted institutions, as well as compliance with the legal regime of the practice of health advertising”, – the document says.