A mother from Venezuela tragically passed away after having liposuction done in a mall.
The incident happened on Sunday night after Ana Rosa Mavarez Rivero, 31, showed up at a clinic in the Marina Plaza Shopping Center in Cumaná (Sucre), where she was born and raised, according to Ultimas Noticias.
According to Jam Press, she had undergone a procedure called laser liposuction, also known as lipo laser, in which doctors use a laser to remove fat, sculpt the body, and reduce cellulite.
The process is typically regarded as less invasive and traumatic than the standard procedure.
This, however, quickly turned out to be the exception when the family called emergency services at around 10 p.m. after the mother of two became ill with breathing issues.
However, at 2:45 a.m., they were still awaiting an emergency vehicle because the hospital was running low on oxygen.
“I’m filming in Cumaná and we can’t get an ambulance,” a family member said in a clip describing the nightmarish scenario. “Ven911 doesn’t have oxygen so we can’t get out of here.”
After making it to the hospital, Rivero was admitted without vital signs, according to local media.
At 4 a.m., the poor woman was officially pronounced dead.
Authorities are looking into Alexander Larrochele, the surgeon who performed the procedure, in the wake of the tragedy.
According to reports, the Criminal and Forensic Scientific Investigation Corps will question him for 45 days as investigators look into the incident.
Rivero is not the first person to pass away as a result of a botched liposuction procedure.
A Spanish fat-trimming procedure that cost $6,500 went horribly wrong in January of last year, killing a mother of two and allegedly leaving her with “injuries like she’d been in a knife fight.”
