It also comes after a group of disabled victims organized and pressured officials from the Taiwanese Health Department to consider the matter. The organization's website and discussion forum, in Mandarin Chinese, are here.

Reporter: 

In Taiwan, about 600,000 people suffer from sweaty hands. To solve the problem, many of them are having a controversial nerve surgery called ETS. But the surgeons do not always tell their patients about the possible side effects. ETS stops all sweating above the nipple-line, so the body over-compensates by sweating much more on the rest of the body.

Male Victim:

I’m extremely dissatisfied and very angry after ETS. I can’t regulate my body temperature. It’s like living in two different hells, a hot hell on my upper body, and a cold hell below. Once you have ETS, your life will be over. ETS is evil. Patients all over the world are against it. Even at 85 degrees, I’m sweating below my chest like a waterfall. But up here I’m dry and very hot. These Black Heart ETS surgeons are lying to the world, and they shouldn’t earn money by destroying a person’s life. They should completely ban this surgery.

Female Victim: 

ETS totally destroyed my life. I’m in pain all the time so I had to quit my job. I’m very angry every single day.

Reporter:

I think we can all agree that surgeons should not earn money by destroying the patient’s life. I hope that in the future doctors will warn patients about the side effects, before they have this very dangerous ETS surgery.