Dear Healthcare Professional Letters
Suspension of supply of Silimed products in Singapore
Audiences
Healthcare professional
Product type
Medical devices
12 October 2015
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Alpha-Health (Asia) Pte Ltd would like to inform healthcare professionals of a suspension of supply of all medical devices manufactured by Silimed Industria De Implantes Ltda in Singapore due to the suspension of European approval (CE certificate) for devices and the ISO quality management system certificates for the manufacturing facility. The suspension followed a recent inspection of their manufacturing plant in Brazil which discovered the presence of particles on the surface of some breast implants. Healthcare professionals are advised to postpone any scheduled operations using Silimed implants until the situation is resolved. Any unused devices should also be quarantined. Please refer to the DHCPL for details.
Only abstracts of the Dear Healthcare Professional Letters (DHCPL) are provided on this website. Details of these letters can be found in the MOH Alert System, which is accessible via the Health Professionals Portal (HPP), a one-stop portal for all healthcare professionals in Singapore. Dentists, medical doctors and pharmacists may access HPP at https://hpp.moh.gov.sg and follow the procedures below to access the MOH Alert system.
Step 1: Select your profession under ‘For Healthcare Professionals’.
Step 2: Click on ‘Useful links’.
Step 3: Click on ‘MOH Alert’ and log in via Singpass.
Step 4: Click on ‘Drug Alerts’ or ‘Med Device Alerts’ to view the DHCPLs.