A 46-year-old Venezuelan woman died in a clinic in Barranquilla, Colombia, following undergoing cosmetic surgery.
According to information provided by relatives, Dilay Danissa Escalante Contreraswho had US citizenship and had lived in Miami for 15 years, went to the health center for a surgical procedure last Thursday, April 21.
“She came to reduce her stomach. She was operated on by Dr. Carlos Sales Puccini at the Reina Catalina Clinic. After the procedure and when he was discharged, we went to the apartment where we were staying, which is by the Buenavista shopping center. It was while she was there that she told us that she felt very bad, ”said Xiomara Contreras, aunt of the deceased.
As reported by the newspaper The nationContreras indicated that following his relative was discharged, the doctor went to where Dilay Escalante was staying because he was in “a lot of pain.”
“They did gastric dilations for three consecutive days. And yesterday (Wednesday) when we were with the doctor in the apartment once more, she told him that she mightn’t take it anymore. To which he replied that it was normal because of the operation, ”she explained.
However, the woman got worse that Thursday morning, so they proceeded to call the doctor once more. The doctor saw her and sent her for an X-ray, but they mightn’t do it.
Relatives of a Venezuelan woman who died in Colombia following undergoing surgery demand justice
“We were with a nurse who works with him. We told him to call him and tell him that we were not going to be able to take her to Reina Catalina, and that is why we took her to the Ibero-American Clinic. We called a friend to take us in her car and when we were on the way she turned pale, she turned her eyes, and she no longer responded, “said Xiomara Contreras.
Upon arrival at the emergency room, they tried to revive her, but Escalante Contreras had suffered cardiac arrest and died.
“We called him to be present and when he wanted to arrive he had already told us that my niece was dead. We want justice to be done,” Contreras cried out to the URI of the Prosecutor’s Office, where he filed a complaint.
He added that following filing the complaint, they found that the specialist had other investigations from previous years for alleged irregular procedures. In fact, the Supreme Court of Justice ordered him to pay compensation to the family of a patient who died.
For his part, surgeon Carlos Sales assured that in his 20-year career he has operated on some 8,600 bariatric surgery patients. And he said that Dilay had come out “very well” from his intervention.
