Woman purported to have unlawfully injected botox for years underneath investigation

The B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons is seeking an claim opposite a lady who they contend acted as a alloy and unlawfully injected scores of people with botox and other filler substances. 

The claim would stop her from practising medicine.

Rajdeep Kaur Khakh is purported to have injected botox into clients during salons in several municipalities, during “botox parties” and in their homes and cars.

Only physicians, dentists, and nurses or protected unsentimental nurses underneath a approach organisation of a alloy are authorised to do such injections in B.C.

 “Unregulated people and estheticians are not competent or certified to inject botox,” a college told her in a minute antiquated Apr 2, 2015 that was filed in support of a application. 

Khakh is not a registrant with any health contention college, and a College of Physicians and Surgeons says she is violating a Heatlh Professions Act. 

In a phone interview, Khakh told a CBC she is remorseful and stopped providing botox and filler injections after being served with a claim on Oct.  5, the same day it was filed in B.C.Supreme Court. 

Rajdeep Kaur Khakh in still picture from clandestine video shot by investigators when they visited a Surrey salon where it’s purported she gave injections of mouth filler. (Paladin Security Group/College of Physicians Surgeons)

However, her advertisements were still display adult on Instagram a full week later.

The justice papers uncover a college has been perplexing to get Khakh to stop for over two years yet indicate she allegedly kept doing it even after finally signing an endeavour in Aug 2016 to “refrain from providing a use of medicine” and “cease controlling titles that are indifferent … for registrants of a college”  

She called herself Dr. Rajji and her hoop was “drlipjob” on Instagram, according to statements filed as partial of a claim application. She charity specials and contests as partial of her promotion campaign.  

College attempted to get her to stop

Khakh came to a college’s courtesy in Mar 2015, after it received an unknown tip about a lady who was going to be behaving “injectables” during a sauna in Tsawwassen. 

The college dynamic it never had a Dr. Raj Khakh registered in B.C. and asked a sauna to “cease and desist” from charity a services.

December Instagram post by drlipjob display a full line-up of injections prepared for “a propitious face.” (College of Physicians Surgeons)

That same month, Khakh contacted a college and told a investigator, Etienne outpost Eck, that she had attended medical propagandize in India and had taken botox training during Vancouver Laser, according to justice documents. 

While she told outpost Eck she got a botox from India, she recently told CBC she usually injected Canadian botox. 

According to outpost Eck’s affadavit,  she also told him she usually gave injections to herself and her family members. That same month, a college sent her a initial duplicate of a endeavour to stop practising medicine. 

Tips kept coming  

According to papers filed in support of a injunction, in May, a library employee in Abbotsford contacted a college about a forged medical looseness found in a photocopier with “Dr. Rajdeep Kaur Khakh” taped over a name of a strange registrant.

Four companies that make products contacted a college individually, checking certification for a Dr. Raj Khakh who used a same feign looseness series in her exchange with them, according to a justice documents.

One of them, a Swiss company named Galderma had already sent her about $164,000 value of products by then, yet she used a residential residence and a hotmail criticism for a business. 

A association worker told a college she had privately witnessed Khakh injecting someone at a hospital in Surrey, according to records filed in court. 

In his affidavit, outpost Eck says he communicated for months with Khakh, seeking her to pointer and get a declare on the undertaking. He says she kept stalling, even yet she reportedly certified to him she had fake a licence. 

In Jul 2016, outpost Eck swore he privately went to a spa and “hand-delivered a minute to a lady who identified herself as Ms. Khakh.”

Gathering evidence

In June, outpost Eck’s confirmation says a college got a tip Khakh was doing botox and juvederm injections during a hair salon in Surrey and selling herself on amicable media as “Dr.Lipjob”.

That’s when a college motionless to sinecure Paladin Security to accumulate justification to help with a investigation.

It searched a rubbish left outward a home and found wrapping and syringes, including Restylane injectable jelly with lidocaine and Galderma Restylane fine lines-L, justification they could compare to invoices from a curative company, contend a allegations contained in a college’s focus for a injunction. 

It also conducted an clandestine operation with an representative posing as a intensity customer who corroborated out only before removing a mouth injection from Khakh.

Undercover video from an review into a wrong use of medicine by a lady posing as doctor0:30

Khakh told CBC she had a medical grade from University of Punjab in Patiala yet pronounced she unsuccessful a chartering exam.

When asked because she did all this, she told CBC: “I got held adult in a whole alloy thing. we didn’t make it in life.” 

College warnings

The college says it can't criticism on a box while it waits for a claim to be granted.  However, in a Jul 2016 minute to a Surrey salon where Khakh had allegedly supposing treatment, outpost Eck said: “This wrong use of medicine places a open during risk.”

None of a allegations opposite Khakh have been proven in court. 

In a ubiquitous matter to CBC, college orator Susan Prins says that non-registered and unlawful practitioners have no word and might be “subjecting their clients to an increasing risk of infection and blood-borne diseases; procedures might outcome in a drop of skin hankie … and (they may) use drugs or other substances without bargain all their properties and contraindications, or use drugs or other substances for crude purposes or in inapt quantities, all of that display clients to a risk of critical mistreat or death.”

It recommends that members of a open hit a controlling physique if they have any doubts about a practitioner’s licensing. 

With files from Anita Bathe and Natalie Clancy

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