Hong Kong government urged to regulate beauty industry after four arrested in police raid on centre in Sham Shui Po
Female police officer posed as customer and was offered skin injection treatment, but a qualified doctor was allegedly not present
A lawmaker renewed his call for regulation of the city’s beauty industry after police arrested four workers from a Sham Shui Po beauty centre where they allegedly practised a skin treatment without supervision by a qualified doctor.
In the raid by the police and the Department of Health on Wednesday, an undercover female police officer posed as a customer. She was recommended an injection treatment worth HK$1,900 for her face at the three-month-old centre, Emma Angel Beauty Concept, on Lai Chi Kok Road.
After confirming there were no registered medical practitioners in the centre as the staff prepared to carry out what is termed a vital injection, officers entered the premises and arrested a man who was reportedly in charge and three women
Officers seized a vital injector and some chemicals listed as part 1 poison.
A woman, 35, was arrested for practising medicine without registration, while the man and another two women aged 25 to 37 were arrested for possession of the poison.