A little over a month ago, Health Minister Nelson Bascome stood up in the House of Assembly to raise his concerns about the opening of a cosmetic health clinic under the auspices of dentist Dr. James Fay.

The same morning, a rare press release emerged from the Bermuda Health Council raising the same concerns over whether the Azure clinic had adhered to local regulations.

Claims were made that health officials had attempted to contact the clinic's operator without success.

Health Council chairwoman Linda Merritt said: "The Bermuda Health Council would like to have collaborated with the entity to ensure that proper controls were in place for emergency events, vetting the credentials of professional staff, equipment maintenance and that the facility meets with the standards of any existing legislative provisions."

Since then, according to Dr. Fay, nothing has happened. He has tried to find out what the regulations are and whether the training he and his staff have undergone meets whatever standards are required.

The response? Silence, both in response to Dr. Fay's inquiries and to similar questions submitted by this newspaper. All of this begs the question of what regulations, if any, exist and what they are. More importantly, if Mr. Bascome was so concerned about this, and presumably the risks that patients of the clinic might be facing, that he had to make public statements in the House of Assembly about it, then why have he and his civil servants done nothing since?