A “Botox” needle referred an investor to the Court

Dubai Public Prosecution referred an investor in a medical consultancy company to the Misdemeanors Court for practicing the profession of human medicine without obtaining a licence from the competent authorities in the country, as the accused would inject the clients with cosmetic materials including Botox and Fillers.

Ms. Haifa Muhammad Abdul Rahman Al Marzouqi, Chief Prosecutor Assistant at Deira Prosecution, said that in cooperation with the Inspection Department of the Health Authority who received information that there is a person practicing the profession of human medicine without a licence (aesthetic medicine), as he would go to the clients’ places in agreement with them so as to inject them with cosmetic injections.

Accordingly, he was ambushed in the form of a client who contacted the accused to book an appointment for a cosmetic procedure in the face. Indeed, he came on the agreed deadline in an apartment booked to apprehend the accused red-handed.

She added: “Public Prosecution’s investigations revealed that the accused came carrying a medium-sized handbag containing the medical tools used to fill the target area or remove fine lines on it, in addition to a number of medical creams.

Upon examining the client’s face, he provided her with some medical consultations and stated that she needed a “Botox” needle in the forehead area and he would charge an amount of 4,700 dirhams for this cosmetic procedure.

Then, he began to anesthetize the area so as to prepare for the insertion of a Botox needle.

Haifa Al-Marzouqi stated that the accused, by virtue of his obtaining medical tools and formulations without a licence to use it, as well as practicing the profession of medicine and offering consultations, endangers the lives of others.

Thus, he has committed two misdemeanors of practicing the profession of human medicine without a licence and possessing machines and medical equipment to practice the profession of human medicine without a licence, punishable by Articles (1, 2, 3, 4, 25/b, second para) of Federal Law No. (5) of 2019 Regulating the Practice of Human Medicine Profession. The case file was transferred to the Misdemeanour Court to penalize the accused in accordance with the charge sheet.