Ten departments in Zhejiang jointly investigated medical beauty chaos： covering ＂appearance anxiety＂ propaganda and illegal medical beauty loans.

Cctv newsAccording to the website of Zhejiang Health and Wellness Committee, the Zhejiang Health and Wellness Committee and others issued a notice on printing and distributing the action plan for tackling the medical beauty chaos for 100 days. The notice made it clear that online monitoring and territorial investigation of medical, medical beauty and life beauty advertisements should be intensified, and the suspected illegal advertising clues found should be cleaned up and dealt with quickly and strictly, and illegal medical beauty advertisements published in disguised forms such as news, which have not been examined by the health department or changed without authorization, as well as false illegal beauty advertisements that exaggerate the effect, violate public order and good customs, sell "appearance anxiety" and mislead consumers by pretending to be doctors, experts, professors and scholars. Details are as follows:

In order to further standardize the service behavior of the medical beauty industry and safeguard people’s health and life safety, ten departments, including the Provincial Health and Wellness Commission, the Network Information Office of the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Public Security Department, the Provincial Market Supervision Bureau, the Provincial Local Financial Supervision Bureau, the Provincial Food and Drug Administration, the Zhejiang Banking Insurance Regulatory Bureau, the Provincial Postal Administration, Hangzhou Customs and Ningbo Customs, decided to start from September 2021 — In December, we jointly launched a 100-day attack on medical beauty chaos rectification (hereinafter referred to as the 100-day attack). The specific requirements are as follows.

First, the main purpose

Carry out the requirements of the Notice of the General Office of the National Health and Wellness Committee and other eight departments on printing and distributing the special rectification work plan for cracking down on illegal medical beauty services, implement the spirit of provincial leaders’ instructions, profoundly draw lessons from the recent frequent accidents in the medical beauty industry inside and outside the province, further strengthen supervision, investigate and rectify potential risks in medical beauty service activities, severely crack down on illegal acts that harm people’s vital interests, reduce the occurrence of disfigurement caused by medical beauty, and provide safe, high-quality and reassuring medical beauty services for the people.

Second, the key areas

All kinds of medical beauty institutions, medical beauty departments of medical institutions, life beauty institutions and other places that illegally carry out medical beauty activities in the province.

Third, the key content

Focus on standardizing the medical beauty service market, adhere to the problem orientation, and comprehensively implement the 100-day attack from five aspects: illegal medical beauty behavior, medical quality and safety of medical beauty institutions, medical beauty advertisements and Internet medical beauty information, medical beauty drugs and medical devices, and medical beauty financial loans.

(a) illegal medical beauty zero action. We will continue to maintain the high-pressure trend of cracking down on illegal medical beauty, have zero tolerance for illegal medical beauty behavior, concentrate on comprehensively investigating illegal medical beauty places and areas and places with high incidence of illegal medical beauty, and severely crack down on "black institutions" and "black doctors" engaged in medical beauty services. Carry out warning education for the heads of medical beauty institutions and life beauty institutions, sign a letter of commitment that medical beauty institutions do not use non-health technicians, and life beauty institutions do not carry out medical beauty.

(2) actions to improve medical quality and safety. Carry out activities of "ensuring safety, controlling quality and improving skills" in an all-round way. Announce the list of medical beauty institutions and health technicians registered for practice to the public. Formulate quality control standards, promote the establishment and improvement of a three-level quality control network, and conduct quality control inspections regularly. Organize the self-inspection of medical quality and safety in the medical beauty industry in the province to promote the homogenization and continuous improvement of plastic beauty medical quality. Formulate and issue guidelines for the prevention of plastic surgery medical risks and organize training and education to prevent plastic surgery medical risks or operations that may cause death and disability.

(three) illegal advertising information removal action. Strengthen the online monitoring and territorial investigation of medical, medical beauty and life beauty advertisements, promptly and strictly clean up and dispose of the suspected illegal advertising clues, and severely investigate and deal with illegal medical beauty advertisements that have not been examined by the health department or changed the approved content without authorization, in disguised forms such as news, and have not obtained the legal qualification of medical beauty, as well as false illegal beauty advertisements that exaggerate the effect, violate public order and good customs, sell "appearance anxiety" and pretend to be doctors, experts, professors and scholars to mislead consumers. Severely crack down on false propaganda in the field of medical beauty, and focus on investigating the medical services provided by medical beauty institutions, which are inconsistent with the promises about beauty effects published through stores and WeChat WeChat official account, lack scientific basis or support for beauty effects, deceive and mislead consumers, hire spokespersons such as online celebrity to conduct live publicity, and spokespersons use words to conduct false commercial publicity and induce consumption and other illegal acts. Strengthen the supervision of local websites, clean up the bad information related to Internet medical beauty identified by relevant departments, and dispose of relevant illegal website platforms and accounts.

(four) drugs and medical devices to clean up the network. Strengthen the supervision and inspection of pharmaceutical and medical device products production and operation enterprises (including online sales enterprises) and users related to medical beauty, carry out supervision and sampling inspection of pharmaceutical and medical devices related to medical beauty, and effectively strengthen the supervision of the whole chain. Severely crack down on the production and operation of products without registration (filing) certificate and related products without license (filing) certificate, as well as the production and operation of counterfeit drugs, unqualified medical devices and other illegal acts. In view of the illegal acts of key varieties in key areas, we will continue to maintain a high-pressure situation, strictly implement the punishment to people, and impose industry bans on serious offenders according to law. Strengthen the inspection and supervision of imported medical devices related to medical beauty, focus on investigating and dealing with unqualified products such as "replacing old ones with new ones" and unlicensed medical devices, and severely crack down on illegal activities such as smuggling drugs and medical devices. Those suspected of committing crimes shall be promptly transferred to public security organs and judicial organs for criminal responsibility according to law.

(five) medical beauty loan pit clearing action. Comprehensively organize the investigation of microfinance companies and severely crack down on illegal lending in the field of medical beauty. Supervise banking institutions and small loan companies to standardize financial marketing propaganda and prudently carry out related business according to law. It is strictly forbidden for banking institutions to cooperate with third-party institutions without loan business qualifications to carry out "medical beauty loans" business, and severely crack down on "routine loans" involving the medical beauty industry. It is strictly forbidden for banking institutions to directly or indirectly cooperate with third parties to carry out campus loan business for college students, and gradually digest the stock business. Those suspected of malicious fraud, violent collection and other serious violations of laws and regulations shall be handed over to public security and judicial organs for criminal responsibility according to law. Urge banking institutions to strictly implement the principle of independent risk control. Strengthen the risk management and control of financing related to the medical and beauty industry, carefully control the access and post-loan management, and strictly prohibit the entry and timely exit of enterprises with problems such as incomplete qualifications, false marketing and frequent disputes.

Fourth, the job requirements

(1) Publicity and launching. In mid-September, all localities should organize and carry out a series of theme activities for the 100-day attack, increase publicity and education on popular science, improve public awareness and participation, create an atmosphere for the whole society to participate in the special rectification of medical beauty, conduct a public welfare publicity on medical beauty science knowledge and financial knowledge for the public, advocate correct selection of doctors, and guide the concept of rational and healthy consumption; Carry out a warning education on illegal cases for medical beauty practitioners to improve their awareness and level of practicing according to law; Supervise the medical beauty institutions and living beauty places to carry out a comprehensive self-examination and self-correction, and compact the main responsibility.

(2) Concentrate on action. From September to November, all localities should further refine the work plan, clarify the work tasks, implement the work measures, strengthen the work responsibilities, and jointly carry out the 100-day attack. All localities and departments should focus on high-frequency violations, pay close attention to key areas and places, comprehensively carry out rectification and investigation, and at the same time, use modern information technology to monitor high-frequency violations in real time, integrate online and offline supervision, and solidly promote the 100-day attack to achieve practical results.

(3) consolidate and upgrade. In December, all localities and departments should carefully analyze the existing problems and difficulties, find out the deep-seated reasons, sum up the typical experience and advanced practices, consolidate and improve the long-term management mechanism, form a normalized and institutionalized working mechanism, condense the joint efforts of supervision, and promote the standardized and healthy development of the medical beauty industry. Please ask the municipal health and health committees to take the lead in reporting the work of the city’s 100-day attack on the city to the provincial health and health Committee before December 5.

(4) Intensify supervision. Municipal or not regularly carry out the "four noes and two straights" supervision, and timely report the progress of the feedback action. The Provincial Health and Wellness Committee will incorporate this 100-day attack into the comprehensive supervision inspector of the medical and health industry to "look back" and will conduct random spot checks in conjunction with relevant departments.

(5) Establish a working mechanism. All localities should further improve the long-term mechanism and management system, and improve the working mechanism of case investigation and joint office, transfer feedback, departmental cooperation, regional cooperation, social co-governance and construction. Establish a "blacklist" for institutions and individuals who commit serious crimes in accordance with the law and bring them into the social credit system. Medical beauty institutions carry out regular self-examination and self-correction according to law and report in time. Strengthen the training and guidance of industry associations, standardize industry behavior and safeguard industry honor.