South Africa Doctors See Boom in Plastic Surgery Demand Amid Pandemic

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By Daniel in News
Updated 4 years ago

Doctors in South Africa, the continent's coronavirus epicenter, expected to be busy as the virus ravaged its way across the Rainbow Nation. But one type of doctor is seeing an unexpected boom in demand: plastic surgeons, who say that the combination of lockdown-imposed isolation and South Africa's world-class medical technology is causing a rush of people who are quietly changing their appearance.   It's the same trend that aesthetic surgeons are seeing in the U.S., Japan and elsewhere.   "There's definitely been a flood of people coming through," said South African physician Dr.

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