Parliament set to debate controversial vaginal mesh which has destroyed the lives of thousands of women as pressure mounts to ban procedure

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Scandal-hit vaginal mesh implants will be debated in parliament next week amid mounting pressure to ban the controversial procedure.

MPs will next week discuss the safety of the operation, which has destroyed the lives of thousands of women, and left many suicidal and unable to have sex.

The scandal, compared to thalidomide, came to light earlier this year, but its true extent is yet to be uncovered. Some 800 British women have since sued.

After previously denying their implants were causing women’s discomfort, mesh manufacturer Johnson & Johnson paid out $57 million to a sufferer from Philadelphia last month after a jury found the company to be negligent and its product defective. 

Ministers are concerned the procedure, used to treat pelvic organ prolapse and incontinence after childbirth, was introduced with ‘little evidence’ to support it.

Campaigners have welcomed the announcement, refusing for their vocal concerns to be swept under the carpet and have to ‘suffer in silence’. 

But experts, backed by MailOnline, are still demanding a public inquiry into the use of the procedure, which 10,000 women undergo each year, according to figures. 

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