A RETIRED public health director will lead an urgent review into how many women have suffered serious side effects after undergoing mesh implant surgery.
Health Secretary Alex Neil announced Dr Lesley Wilkie will head up the independent review. He also confirmed to MSPs that all health boards have now been contacted to ask them to suspend the routine use of the implants.
Transvaginal tapes and meshes are used in the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence, with about 1850 women having the surgery each year in Scotland.
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