Strict new regulations set up for beauty clinics in Thailand

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Strict new regulations set up for beauty clinics
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Beauty clinics across the country are now required to display their licences clearly as well as the prices of all their services under new regulations imposed by the Public Health Ministry.

These measures are part of the ministry's effort to ensure all aesthetic treatments provided by private beauty clinics are within acceptable standards and safe.

Under the new regulations, the owners need to display clearly the name of the clinic, the treatments they are licensed to provide, and the fees they are allowed to charge, along with the names and photographs of the physicians who will provide the treatment.

They are also required to display the professional practice licence as well as the price list of the services, said Boonruang Triruangworawat, director-general of the Department of Health Service Support.

There are about 14,000 beauty clinics and 38 private hospitals nationwide providing aesthetic services and treatments. The owners and medical workers providing these treatments are now required by law to undergo intensive training with the Public Health Ministry to improve their skills.

In addition, the ministry has set up a special panel to evaluate each clinic's service standards and has warned that their licence will be withdrawn if they are found to be offering substandard services or not complying with the regulations.


-- The Nation 2013-09-28

[NongKhaiKid]

It doesn't matter how many strict new regulations and laws are introduced for anything it all comes down to proper enforcement and we all know how easy it can be to get around such minor matters.

There's a lot of gullable people so what about the patently false advertising that encourages women especially to spend billions on facial gunk that supposed to make them as white as Caspar the Friendly Ghost not to mention baby formula's that will turn little Somchai or Somying into another Enstein.

[noitom]

This is pure Thai puffery.

[lee b]

And so they should be, this is peoples lifes that are being dealt with

[soi41]

A story from the real Thailand!

9 or 10 years ago the provincial governor of my province came up with a similar masterplan, only this time it was about traditional Thai massage. So Thailands valued foreign tourists would only get massaged by qualified staff. So on a certain date all staff from the province had to go and prove their skills in a written and practical test. All our staff failed!

Later the same day, a Dr Somchai (who we had never been in touch with before) called and said, that he had heard that we a problem with getting our staff certified. But he could help us!

So the next day we met up with the dear Dr at his "office" at a restaurant in a department store. Handed over a list of names, photos and a brown envelope. He disappeared for a couple of hours and then came back with about 20 diplomas with all the right stamps, claiming that the holder of that piece of paper, had recieved 180 hour of massagetraining at Wat Po!

So the next day it was business as usual. I wanted to wait, because how do you get 180 hours of training in only 24 hours? But my wife told me never mind, and she was right. In all those years since then, never a check or a follow up.

Makes you wonder, what kind of deal the governor had with Dr Somchai??

[Thai at Heart]

Do they have to prove that that new gambled fangled thingamajig doesn't really dissolve fat???

[WitawatWatawit]

They will have to face facts. An operator who nose nothing will end up in court, but they should get a fair 'earring. Then they can nip back and tuck into their work.

[animatic]

Fly by night regulation lurch to let someone above think

that the guy who's done it is actually doing something.

And make a bit of Teamoney. Then back to business as usual.

Edited September 28, 2013 by animatic

[Emdog]

Seems whoever dreamed this up has been hitting the "essence of chicken" a bit hard this week.

[MMarlow]

A story from the real Thailand!

9 or 10 years ago the provincial governor of my province came up with a similar masterplan, only this time it was about traditional Thai massage. So Thailands valued foreign tourists would only get massaged by qualified staff. So on a certain date all staff from the province had to go and prove their skills in a written and practical test. All our staff failed!

Later the same day, a Dr Somchai (who we had never been in touch with before) called and said, that he had heard that we a problem with getting our staff certified. But he could help us!

So the next day we met up with the dear Dr at his "office" at a restaurant in a department store. Handed over a list of names, photos and a brown envelope. He disappeared for a couple of hours and then came back with about 20 diplomas with all the right stamps, claiming that the holder of that piece of paper, had recieved 180 hour of massagetraining at Wat Po!

So the next day it was business as usual. I wanted to wait, because how do you get 180 hours of training in only 24 hours? But my wife told me never mind, and she was right. In all those years since then, never a check or a follow up.

Makes you wonder, what kind of deal the governor had with Dr Somchai??

A massage shop to avoid like the plague, then...if it's location was known.

[Benmart]

More negative fortune telling from posters claiming to know where this will go. Similar comments that the BTMS would never be built, that the new airport would fail, Highway 7 would sink into the muck and on and on. Yes dear, things do move slowly here and maybe not at the pace the TVF experts would like, but change comes none-the-less. An option is to wait and watch and follow the story.

[kurnell]

Balding men and brown Thai women are very willing to believe that anything, no matter how unlikely, can help their cause.