A cosmetic clinic on the same street as a Centrelink office offered breast implants on a $5-a-day payment plan – and it’s completely legal.
The surgery is believed to have offered the procedures at a heavily discounted price while targeting women on welfare payments.
The implants usually cost upward of $10,000 but these payment plans made the procedure drastically cheaper at $5,990.
The surgery on the same street as the welfare office was offering the procedures at a heavily discounted price and targeted at women on welfare payments
In an investigation by ABC’s Four Corners, a former nursing unit manager said one in five patients who had breast implants at the surgery were on Centrelink benefits.
She said the business ‘preyed on women who were divorced, who were single and who were low socio-economic status.’
Another ex-employee described the company as a ‘boob factory’ and that the business model was run like ‘McDonald’s’.
The former operations manager said: ‘We worked on high volume, lots of people coming through the doors and doing it at a low cost.

Implants usually cost upward of $10,000 but these breast augmentations were priced at $5,990
‘The whole system was set up just to make money. It was a boob factory,’ he said.
These low-cost procedures are believed to be carried out by doctors who weren’t trained as plastic surgeons and not equipped to handle potential complications in the breast augmentation surgery.
After going under the knife, patients can experience infections and pain caused by contracture of the implant as well as deformity.

In an investigation by ABC’s Four Corners, a former nursing unit manager said one in five patients who had breast implants at the surgery were on Centrelink benefits
Samantha Paton was a patient at the surgery in 2015 and after the operation she was in excruciating pain.
Mrs Paton said: ‘I couldn’t function – I couldn’t sleep and couldn’t eat, I couldn’t do anything but sit there and cry in agony.’
The rise in popularity for cosmetic procedures is believed to be led by social media influencers on Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat.
Surgeons and influencers are believed to be teaming up with each other for discounted or free procedures exchanged for advertising.
Kate Szepanowski, a social media influencer who has more than 45,000 followers on Instagram, admits to having surgery on her lips, cheek and jaw.
The social media star has been approached to have procedures such as a ‘Brazilian butt lift’ from various clinics for a discounted price.
The 23-year-old has also been brand ambassador for laser companies and receives free treatments if she promotes it them on her social media.
Ms Szepanowski said: ‘It’s kind of just this generation I guess, It is just kind of normal.’

Surgeons and influencers are believed to be teaming up with each other for discounted or free procedures exchanged for advertising