[ti:Surgery Safaris Looking for the Perfect Body]
[ar:Anna Matteo]
[al:Health Report]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report.
[00:04.59]How far would you go for a perfect body?
[00:09.81]Many people these days are going as far as South Africa
[00:16.49]to get their version of perfection.
[00:19.53]People from across Africa and the world
[00:24.47]come for so-called "surgery safaris."
[00:28.25]There are no animals to see on these safaris.
[00:32.68]The visitors instead look for smaller stomachs,
[00:37.61]firmer bottoms or perhaps new eye, nose or chin shapes.
[00:44.58]Businesses that provide medical safaris
[00:48.41]say they have seen a large increase in African customers.
[00:52.94]VOA's Gillian Parker spoke with several cosmetic surgeons
[00:58.83]in Johannesburg for her report.
[01:01.83]South Africa is becoming the leading country in Africa
[01:07.66]for people seeking cosmetic surgery.
[01:10.59]For years, South Africa has appealed
[01:14.14]to medical tourists from Europe and the United States.
[01:18.22]But local cosmetic surgeons say now more clients
[01:23.45]from Africa's growing economies
[01:25.94]are interested in such operations.
[01:28.73]Lorraine Melvill is a doctor with Surgeon and Safari.
[01:33.95]She has been performing cosmetic surgeries
[01:37.31]for nearly 16 years in Johannesburg.
[01:41.35]She says that more than 80 percent of her clients
[01:46.87]now come from sub-Saharan Africa.
[01:49.97]She says this is because Africa did not experience
[01:55.24]the economic problems that hit other parts of the world.
[01:59.62]"When the West started having its economic downturn,
[02:02.81]it was almost a symbiotic change and the scales just tilted.
[02:10.43]And we know Africa wasn't as affected by the economic downturn.
[02:17.46]There is also a huge emerging African middle class
[02:21.34]that has come to the fore.
[02:22.73]But for us, the growing market
[02:25.02]is the sub-Saharan African market.
[02:27.71]Africa is where we are looking to the future."
[02:30.70]Her clients are treated like movie stars.
[02:33.78]Assistants take them from the airport to a luxurious guesthouse.
[02:39.80]They explain in detail the medical operation to be done.
[02:44.39]Doctors operate the next day.
[02:47.54]And then clients have a week
[02:51.22]or two to enjoy a shopping safari
[02:54.27]for new clothes and handbags while their bodies heal.
[02:59.34]Clients can spend anywhere from $5,000 to $7,000
[03:06.20]on a cosmetic treatment.
[03:08.10]They might spend an additional $2,000
[03:12.18]on the cost of the hotel while they heal.
[03:15.13]For many African women, less is more.
[03:20.35]Ms. Melvill says the most popular forms of cosmetic surgeries
[03:25.63]for African women are breast reductions and liposuction.
[03:30.70]Liposuction removes fat from the body.
[03:34.29]So-called tummy tucks are also common.
[03:37.87]This treatment removes fat from a person's middle.
[03:42.35]"A lot of Africans have a huge need for breast reduction.
[03:46.13]And also in terms of the African market,
[03:51.06]I would certainly say breast reductions,
[03:52.90]liposuctions and tummy tucks would be their main."
[03:57.53]South Korea is also a popular spot for cosmetic surgery.
[04:04.85]But the leading treatments there are operations
[04:09.09]to create larger eyes, thinner noses and pointy chins.
[04:15.12]A 2009 report from the research company Trend Monitor
[04:20.41]said one in five South Korean women has had plastic surgery.
[04:25.59]But South Africa is catching up.
[04:28.84]"We are seeing a massive influx of patients from sub-Saharan Africa."
[04:34.11]Dr. Chris Snijman is the national secretary
[04:38.10]for the Association of Plastic
[04:41.29]and Reconstructive Surgeons of South Africa (APRSSA).
[04:44.63]He says that there are several reasons
[04:48.38]for the increase in cosmetic treatments in South Africa.
[04:52.81]These include a favorable exchange rate
[04:56.90]and better and safer surgical methods.
[05:01.18]Mr. Snijman says there is also less of a stigma
[05:06.86]attached to plastic surgery in South Africa.
[05:10.29]"Obviously they are becoming more socially aware,
[05:13.73]the social boundaries and stigma attached
[05:18.54]to cosmetic surgery are now far less than they were before."
[05:22.59]And, he says a growing number of people
[05:26.17]in sub-Saharan Africa have more disposable income
[05:30.30]than in the past.
[05:32.05]"... not to mention our own emerging upper middle class group
[05:39.72]of patients in this country...
[05:40.92]and in addition, they now have a disposable income."
[05:44.60]Dr. Julie Sinclair performs many non-surgical treatments every week.
[05:49.83]She says most of her customers are women.
[05:53.51]But she says this is slowly changing.
[05:57.29]"Over the last few years a lot more male patients are coming.
[06:00.92]So in terms of gender,
[06:02.72]that has changed quite a lot.
[06:04.06]In terms of race perhaps,
[06:06.92]a lot of Asian, Indian, Thai,
[06:10.05]Chinese as well as black patients are realizing
[06:13.44]that they can do something about something
[06:16.61]that is bothering them.
[06:17.40]And, I suppose, to some extent,
[06:19.74]they are more able to do it
[06:21.22]as the economical climate changes as well."
[06:24.41]A lack of rules on the cosmetic surgery industry
[06:27.84]has led to a growing number of rogue surgeons.
[06:31.98]South Africa's medical professionals say
[06:36.46]as the industry continues to grow
[06:39.04]there must be stronger laws to govern it.
[06:42.59]I'm Anna Matteo.
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