The doctor at the Santa Lucía hospital who treated the victim of a failed liposculpture describes the critical situation she was in
“He arrived at the ER door so badly that we had to start giving him jet transfusions.” In this way, so graphic and so heartbreaking, a doctor described this Friday the critical state in which the neighbor of Alcantarilla Sara Gómez was when she was admitted to the Santa Lucía hospital in Cartagena, in the first days of last month, because of the severe complications arising during a cosmetic surgery intervention.
This doctor made these statements this Friday before the head of the Court of Instruction number 3 of Cartagena, María del Mar Gómez, who coordinates the investigation into the death of Sara Gómez after undergoing liposculpture. In these proceedings, the surgeon Javier Alejandro M. and the anesthetist who intervened in the operation are being investigated. Both have been summoned to testify on March 30.
Until then, the court continues to promote the investigation and the statement offered this Friday by the ER doctor was very revealing. With great sincerity and crudeness, he described how the woman entered the hospital in a practically irreversible state. And she remembered how they had to transfuse a large number of blood bags, up to almost a dozen, to try to keep her alive. “It’s what we call doing a jet transfusion,” he specified, according to sources close to the case.
Companion of the defendant
The surgeon of the Santa Lucía also declared that she performed a life or death intervention on Sara, a few hours before she expired. This doctor acknowledged that she knew the accused surgeon, since she had been his partner during the MIR in La Arrixaca, and admitted that she had even spoken with him those days to ask him what had happened. The same sources pointed out that the prosecutor had to work hard in the face of the lukewarmness of her demonstrations.
The alleged girlfriend of the surgeon denied any affective relationship between the two and said that she had entered the operating room that day to learn
Special attention had been drawn by the appearance, as a witness, of a young woman who entered the operating room with the surgeon Javier Alejandro M. and who, despite not having any relationship with the hospital, contemplated the intervention. Although from some areas she had been romantically linked to the investigated doctor, she denied this Friday any personal relationship and explained her presence in the operating room because the surgeon wanted to hire her as a receptionist in his clinic. “I wanted to learn more about this type of operation,” he came to say.
The woman assured that the entire operation took place with apparent normality, that no problem was detected and that she did not feel that there was any danger at any time. He also denied that there had been an argument between the surgeon and the anesthetist, allegedly due to a sudden worsening of the patient’s health.
The two lawyers for the private prosecution, Evaristo Llanos Sola and Mercedes Murcia, and the surgeon’s defense attorney, Pablo Martínez, attended the testimony of these witnesses. Meanwhile, relatives of Sara Gómez returned to demonstrate at the doors of the courts.