Plastic Surgery Addict gets new Nose costing NHS 50K

What an idiot. How is this allowed when dying cancer victims can't get medication they need?

A surgery addict who has undergone 42 operations to look like 'Barbie's Ken' is to get a new £50,000 nose on the NHS after his body rejected his latest implant.

Last week air steward Rodrigo Alves, 32, who has spent £305,000 on plastic surgery, was hospitalised with necrosis - when the flesh begins to die - after undergoing his seventh nose job.

Mr Alves, who is originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil, but now lives in London, last week described how following his seventh nose job a hole began to appear and his new septum appeared to come loose. The hole grew and he began having trouble breathing and so he was sent to hospital in Malaga, Spain, where he was given antibiotics through an IV drip every eight hours.

Doctors warned the infection may eat through his nose into his face - which could become gangrenous - and told him he may have to be removed. Now, in Britain he is expected to undergo a 10 hour operation which will involve removing cartilage from his rib area and rebuilding his nose from scratch after previous operations have left him with hardly any bone and tissue.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3563896/Surgery-addict-50-000-nose-NHS-contracting-bug.html

He should pay at least some of it back. He looked quite cute with his original face.

God...it's like something out of Frankenstein.

Yes...let us fit the bill whilst the aged the young and the ill are denied treatment.

You could say the same about any medical issue which is more "trivial" than cancer though. This man now has a medical issue with his nose which needs treating. Whether it should cost that much to rebuild his nose is questionable, and he should contribute to the cost of that.

Syl wrote:God...it's like something out of Frankenstein.

Yes...let us fit the bill whilst the aged the young and the ill are denied treatment.

He got himself in that pickle, so let him foot the bill. He was rich enough to ruin the rest of his face and body so why not this new bit of surgery.

I wonder why these people never look at themselves and think "Hmmmm. Think I may have gone tooooo far...."

eddie wrote:I wonder why these people never look at themselves and think "Hmmmm. Think I may have gone tooooo far...."

People say it's an illness but it looks too much like good old fashioned vanity to me. He wasn't a bad looking lad to begin with, just needed to tone up and get to the gym, which would be easy for a young man to do. Instead, he's just bone idle and wanted a quick fix with the least effort. All those plastic pecs.....yuk

Raggamuffin wrote:You could say the same about any medical issue which is more "trivial" than cancer though. This man now has a medical issue with his nose which needs treating. Whether it should cost that much to rebuild his nose is questionable, and he should contribute to the cost of that.

I don't see why the NHS should fund him at all really.