Internet users angered over ‘light’ penalty handed down to illegal clinic that destroyed Chinese star Gao Liu’s face
- Outrage has blown up over the six month suspension imposed on the clinic
- The surgery left Gao hospitalised for two months, and cost her US$60,959 in film deals and an additional US$304,799 for breaches of contracts
The operator was suspended from her practice for a six-month period while the clinic she worked at faces fines of 49,000 yuan (US$7,478) after the 24-year-old actress and singer, Gao Liu’s four-hour nasal surgery left her disfigured.
“The six-month suspension is just like a long holiday and they will make back the fines in one or two patients,” said another commentator.
Gao Liu shared the photos of her failed plastic surgery operation to her five million followers on Weibo in February, to warn others of the potential dangers of plastic surgery.
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Her post generated a flood of anger from internet users who called for tougher regulation of China’s rapidly expanding cosmetic surgery industry after the actress revealed she was unaware the clinic where she had the surgery was unlicensed.
