Women protest in London on Thursday 9 May 2019 amid fears that the UK is now in the grip of a pelvic mesh implant crisis. Members of campaign group, Sling The Mesh, are fighting to keep a specialist NHS mesh removal service in London open, after it was stopped with no warning. Some operations were cancelled by hospital chiefs just days before women were due to receive complex mesh removal procedures, some of whom had waited up to two years for surgery. The growing mesh crisis has prompted campaigners to pressure the Government to carry out a retrospective audit to track the outcome of every
Women protest in London on Thursday 9 May 2019 amid fears that the UK is now in the grip of a pelvic mesh implant crisis. Members of campaign group, Sling The Mesh, are fighting to keep a specialist NHS mesh removal service in London open, after it was stopped with no warning. Some operations were cancelled by hospital chiefs just days before women were due to receive complex mesh removal procedures, some of whom had waited up to two years for surgery. The growing mesh crisis has prompted campaigners to pressure the Government to carry out a retrospective audit to track the outcome of every single woman who has had a mesh operation in the last two decades. They say it is the only way to reveal the magnitude of suffering, and make the call for mesh implant operations to be banned unanswerable
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