Two women who suffered serious sequelae after undergoing paths of cosmetic surgery In Cartagena they have denounced that they were operated by a surgeon who did not have the homologated title to practice medicine in Spain. However, this could rent an operating room in the private private hospital Virgen de la Caridad and operate at least another half a hundred women.
The Court of Instruction number 5 of the Port City has opened an investigation against women, of Colombian nationality, which is cited to declare on Monday as alleged Author of the crimes of injury, documentary falsehood, professional intrusion and impersonation.
Promotes its services in several social media profiles in which it is presented as “plastic-reconstructive surgeon with more than 20 years of experience and More than 3,000 happy patients“, With a certified title and member of the Venezuelan Society of Plastic, Reconstructive, Aesthetic and Maxillofaciary Surgery of the Latin American Ibero Federation of Plastic Surgery (FILACP).
However, the police investigation carried out following these complaints has come to the conclusion that is not part of any Spanish Professional Medical College nor has the necessary approval To exercise medicine in our country, the lawyers of those affected, Rosa Egea and Sergio Marco have explained.
However, there would be Operated at least another 50 women On the same dates as the two complainants, one of them intervened on October 21, 2023 and the other on June 15, 2024, all in the hospital of the Ribera Group cited, with which he has tried to contact to collect his version Without obtaining an answer.
Operating room rental
The lawyers consider that the clinic did not directly rented the operating room for the Colombian surgeon, but to one Murciano with a homologated title who conducted his residence in plastic surgery at the Virgen de la Arrixaca Hospital in Murcia, whose name is the only one that appears in the documentation that women received after being operated, although they never had contact with whom he also cited to declare this Monday.
Both victims met the surgeon in their social networks, which They continue active and in which dozens of photographs and videos of their interventions are published.
First case
The complainant intervened in 2023 resorted to her services for health reasons because I wanted to withdraw some implants Biopolymers that had put himself in the buttocks in his youth, explains Egea. This substance, whose use is prohibited in Spain, had moved to the pubis and caused important pain and inflammation.
Taking advantage of that intervention, the surgeon proposed to undergo a complete surgical package that also included a mammoplasty (chest increase), a 360 liposuction (fat withdrawal from the entire contour of the body) and a lipotransference to the buttocks.
According to his lawyer, after being intervened, the woman had to go “innumerable times to emergencies“, where he was detected important infections and inflammation caused by the infiltrated liquid during liposuction, which was not properly eliminated with drainage massages, as usual after this technique was performed.
More serious is the situation derived from the incorrect withdrawal of biopolymers, which have moved to the left leg, They threaten the arteries And their life is serious, so public health has approved to take over the withdrawal of that toxic product.
Second case
The woman operated in 2024 also underwent a complete surgical package of abdominoplasty (Liposuction of abdomen) with lipotransference to buttocks and mastopexia (chest elevation), after which it began to feel difficulty breathing, vomiting and bleeding, according to Marco.
The woman entered the UCI of the Santa Lucía Hospital, in Cartagena, where He stayed five days diagnosed with a hypovolemic shock (severe blood loss) due to a hemorrhage derived from abdominoplasty, in addition to a hepatic laceration of grade 4 that caused hematomas and subhematomas in the liver.
The two women also suffer important scarsespecially the first to be operated, to whom the liposuction caused a cleft of about 5 centimeters thick at the rib height throughout the contour of the body that has not disappeared.
Sara Gómez was operated at the same clinic
Although their lives are not in danger, the comparison with the sadly known case of Sara Gómezwho died in January 2022 after undergo liposculpture in the same clinic and whose history resulted in the approval in September 2024 of the law that regulates the practice of plastic, aesthetic and repairing surgery in Spain, which establishes that only accredited plastic surgeons can perform it.
Egea and Marco have lamented that despite these regulations, cases in which the law mocks the collusion is still mocking Between accredited and non -accredited professionals and of the scarce control of the clinics that rent their facilities.
They also warn danger that can suppose This way of offering medical services in social networks, “with a lot of marketing and very little security,” which banalize the risks of complex surgical interventions and that should only be in the hands of accredited professionals.
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