Five years on.. same mesh, same torture

Implant victim blasts lack of govt action

- BY JENNIFER HYLAND [e-mail]

A MUM who blames a controversial plastic implant for her crippling pain has blasted the Scottish Government for continuing to use the products.

Roseanna Clarkin is one of a number of women who blame mesh products for life-changing complications.

In her case, it was used to treat an umbilical hernia in 2015.

Three years later, while the Scottish Government banned the use of vaginal mesh products, surgical mesh is still used for other procedures.

Studies suggest five to 20 per cent of hernia operations result in mesh failure. A study in the British Medical Journal, said the rate could be 12 to 30 per cent.