[00:00:02] Venezuela is a country where beauty is not only an aspiration, but also big business taking several women to the top of world beauty pageants. Now, a shortage of breast implants is making it much more difficult to achieve that beauty. Gold, plastic [00:00:17] surgeons and Venezuela. Say tied government currency, controls have made it very difficult for them to obtain the dollars needed to buy the preferred and safer American implants. They are good. What’s really happening with memory problems?

Theses. Is that distributors or medical [00:00:32] suppliers? Are not getting the amount of foreign currency? They used to get in Venezuela. The government strictly controls access to Dollars and other foreign currencies Venezuela has been plagued by shortages for Years first. It was food Staples like milk [00:00:47] eggs and chicken then toilet paper and other products. Started running out breast implants are the most recent item in a long list of scarce products. I mean, there’s also obviously this situation is reflected in the highwomen.

Our cost of prophecies [00:01:02] if these costs go up or are increased, what happens then, is that surgery is only available to those with higher incomes. Last year, there were 85 thousand breast procedures in Venezuela, mostly for augmentation or other cosmetic reasons, that [00:01:17] makes it the fifth largest country for such surgeries. Plastic surgeons are now using Alternatives like chinese-made implants, which caused much less, but are viewed as less safe the shortage of breath.

Implants is not only affecting those women [00:01:32] who would like to enhance their beauty breast cancer patients, who have undergone mastectomies are also being affected Ingrid. The board has runs an organization that facilitates reconstructive surgery for women who have had their breasts removed for health reasons [00:01:47] wedding. Goodbye, young of shortages are affecting everything women who are hoping to get breast implants are seeing their dreams. Unfulfilled chemotherapy treatments are also extremely expensive as well as radiation Prestige. These are nearly dollars and only if you can find them, for [00:02:02] those who can’t afford breast implants, there are silicone breast forms that are placed inside the bra. But the board has says, some of her patients are increasingly using the most affordable option breast forms made of fabric filled with cotton [00:02:17] Rafael Romo, CNN Atlanta.