Similar to Silvia Idalia? Mother of 3 dies after undergoing cosmetic surgery in Tijuana and her doctor flees

• A case similar to Silvia Idalia’s?
• Mexican woman dies after cosmetic surgery.
• The doctor fled after the woman died.

A 36-year-old Mexican woman lost her life after undergoing cosmetic surgery at a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico. The case went viral after the family announced the woman’s death was due to malpractice and argued that the responsible doctor fled after she died.

Cosmetic surgeries, although very popular, have also put lives at risk. A clear example was the case of Silvia Idalia Serrano, who underwent a triple cosmetic surgery and ended up in an induced coma due to a fatal skin infection that she developed a week after her operation. She died almost three months later.

SHE DIED AFTER COSMETIC SURGERY

Lilian Gastelum Flores, 36, died after undergoing cosmetic surgery at a clinic located in Tijuana, Mexico that claimed to have specialists and promised «wonderful» results. The woman went there hoping to undergo liposuction and ended up experiencing complications.

After revealing her death, the family asks for justice because they say that the woman died because of malpractice. Mexican authorities are investigating the case and looking for the doctor who is allegedly responsible for the death of Lilian Gastelum; In Mexico, at least three deaths have been reported in recent weeks due to these procedures in clandestine clinics, according to Televisa News.

What happened to Liliana?

Initial reports indicate that Lilian Gastelum went to the «Diagnosis» Clinic, in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, to undergo liposuction. During the aesthetic procedure that the 36-year-old woman’s suffered complications, and died shortly after, reported Televisa News.

The family argues that irregularities caused Lilian’s death during the cosmetic procedure. According to local media, Gastelum’s relatives stated that she entered surgery around 10 am they weren’t informed of her death until 3 pm local time.

What happened during the surgery?

Lilian Gastelum, a 36-year-old real estate agent, came to the clinic hoping to get the body of her dreams, not knowing it would end her life. The family indicated that at 3 pm, they were told that «something was wrong.» Her sister was the first to receive the harsh news.

The moment when Lilian Gastelum’s sister learned that she had died after cosmetic surgery went viral on social media. She says that throughout the process they had told her «that everything was fine.» Likewise, she stated that they took her out of the clinic to tell her the bad news about her sister’s procedure.

Why are they blaming the clinic?

Ana Karen Gastelum Flores, Lilian’s sister, stated that she was in the doctor’s office the entire time and no one told her that the process had gone wrong and her sister had died until an hour later. Shortly after, she was asked to leave the office and it was at that time that she was told what was happening. TO SEE VIDEO CLICK HERE

“At approximately 2:30 they inform me that they’ll give me information at 3:30, that is, an hour after the death of my sister. It means that my sister was dead for an hour inside and as a family member I didn’t have any information, being inside the office, without moving for a single minute,” she declared, according to Noticias Televisa.

What happened to the doctor?

Unlike the case of Silvia Idalia Serrano, the Mexican woman died in the operating room and the family is blaming the clinic and the doctor because, shortly after she lost her life, the person responsible for the surgery fled. Ricardo Carpio Sánchez, Attorney General of Baja California, reported that an investigation and search folder for the main suspect had been opened.

“Well, the first thing that the relatives of the person who unfortunately lost her life under those circumstances told us was that the first person to leave the place before any authority arrived was the doctor responsible for the surgical intervention, presumably an intervention with aesthetic purposes, of course the research is ongoing,” he declared.