According to a report, a California woman died and two others were hospitalized.
Two-year-old 38-year-old mother Kianna Weaver died at the operating table at the Art Siluette Esthetic Surgery in Tijuana, 29 years old. San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
Weavers’ friend, Kanisha Davis, said the two had liposuction and tummy tuck for the day with the same doctor.
Davis, a nurse, came home to Long Beach to learn that her friend had died and then began bleeding internally and vomiting.
Reportedly, she remained hospitalized for two weeks.
“I would have died if I hadn’t gone to the hospital,” Davis said. “I was bleeding slowly. I was weak. “
A third woman, Esmeralda Inchiz – who did not know the other two patients, but underwent surgery on the same day – said she died of septic shock as a result of her procedure.
He has been in and out of the hospital since February with kidney failure.
The women said that the director of the clinic, Drs. The procedures were performed by Jesús Manuel Boz López. According to the report, the local association of plastic surgeons stated that he was not a member.
“I’m very sad. I want to know what happened,” Weavers’ mother, Renee Weaver, told the newspaper.
A letter provided to the Tribune showed the clinic offered to return $ 6,700 of her daughter’s surgery.
She did not even know that Keuna had traveled south of the border, until a family member called her to tell her about her daughter’s death.
According to the report, Cayuna’s cause of death was listed as “secondary hypoxic encephalopathy”, a brain injury caused by oxygen deficiency. She leaves behind a 13-year-old and a 1-year-old child.
“Keuna was a very independent woman; A nice, sweet, smart and very intelligent black woman, ”said her distraught mother.
“I’m mostly sad with my daughter because she was already so beautiful to me, inside and out, she just can’t see it.”
Davia, Keviah’s friend, remembered that she was not attached to any monitor during her surgery and was released shortly thereafter, in a hotel room where she was about to recover.
“Being a nurse to me, I knew something was off,” she told the newspaper.
“Do we know that we were risking being in Mexico? Yes, “Davis said.” But have we ever, thought the risk would be death? No.”
Authorities in Baja California, home of the Mexican state of Tijuana, told the Union-Tribune that they are witnessing Cayuanna’s death.
State Director of Medical Tourism Etjimba Villegas said in a statement, “We are working very hard to ensure that doctors who are practicing without proper credentials are immediately shut down and examined by the Attorney General . “
“It is essential for the entire industry that patients feel safe and take good care of them and get the results they are looking for.”
Neither Bays Lopez nor the clinic responded to a request for comment from the newspaper.
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