Cosmetic surgery

More foreigners are travelling to the Czech Republic for breast enlargements and facelifts as the economic crisis drives the search for cheaper cosmetic surgery, tourism officials said.

Foreigners now account for a fifth of the total number of cosmetic surgery clients in the country, he said.

Most of the clients are German, followed by Britons and Austrians.

Roman Kufa, the head doctor at a cosmetic surgery clinic in Prague, told a press conference that Czech prices were about three or four times lower than in the West.