KUALA LUMPUR, July 30 -- Malaysians should make sure to ask doctors if they have the Health Ministry's licence to carry out aesthetic and beauty treatments on them, the Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur has said in its RM800,000 decision over a breast filler injection procedure.

In this medical negligence case, Sessions Court judge Saifullah Bhatti ordered a doctor who did not have the licence, a Petaling Jaya beauty clinic found to be unlicensed, and the beauty clinic's owner, to pay RM800,000 in exemplary damages to a woman over the injection of fillers into her breasts.

In this case, the woman - identified only as R for privacy purposes - had experienced pain and swelling after the breast filler injections in 2020. This resulted in her ...