Cai Wenjun/Shanghai Daily news

In the second quarter of this year, health authorities cracked down on eight beauty parlors offering unlicensed plastic surgery and other medical treatments, the Shanghai Health Bureau said yesterday.

Unlicensed medical treatment is one of the main targets of a local health campaign. This year, the city has closed 2,048 underground medical clinics, imposed fines of 2.15 million yuan (US$313,727), confiscated 403,328 yuan of illegal income, 2,646 packages of medicine, 17,672 medical implements, and transferred 16 cases to the police for further investigation.