POLICE have arrested the director of a private clinic in Majorca following the death of a Brit patient who paid £6,000 for a boob job.
The 69-year-old has been held on suspicion of a gross negligence manslaughter charge after an investigation into the botched op.
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The Brit passed away at a hospital in Palma following complications linked to the cosmetic surgery at the unnamed private clinic.
It has since emerged that the unnamed director had ignored an order preventing him to work as a medical practitioner to partake in the fatal surgery.
Police also revealed that he had been taken out of prison where he was serving a sentence for an unrelated crime.
The main surgeon involved in the botched op passed away in Switzerland last year after an illness, so no action can be taken against him.
Another man who has been described as a “helper” has also been placed under investigation – although he hasn’t been formally arrested.
The Brit, who was in her early thirties, died a fortnight after the operation, on September 13, 2023.
A spokesman for the National Police in Majorca, which made the arrest, said: “National Police officers have arrested a 69-year-old man responsible for managing a clinic in Palma where he also worked as a practitioner, for crimes of gross negligence manslaughter and breaching a medical ban following the death of a patient.
“A young woman of British origin underwent cosmetic surgery at a clinic in Palma.
“During the operation and for reasons which are still being investigated, the victim went into cardiac arrest and had to be transferred urgently to Son Espases University Hospital.
“After being admitted to intensive care for almost two weeks, she died on September 13 last year as a result of the serious injuries she suffered during her cardiac arrest.”
The National Police in Majorca added that the family had lodged a malpractice complaint against the health professionals involved.
The spokesman said: “Our homicide unit began an investigation and after gathering together all the documentation related to the medical intervention and taking statements from health professionals, arrested the director of the clinic who was also a medical practitioner.
“Investigators have accused one of the other two health professionals who participated in the surgery of the same type of manslaughter crime as the clinic director.
“The other man cannot be accused of any crime due to his sudden death two months after the surgery.”
According to the National Police, the procedure involved several irregularities.
One of which was that the health professionals agreed to practice a second cosmetic procedure without warning or properly informing the patient of the risks.
It has also since been revealed that the patient went into cardiac arrest when the clinicians were preparing to perform the second op.
The Police went on to say that the signed patient consent forms were written in Spanish and, according to the British woman’s family, the patient didn’t know how to read Spanish.
Confirming that the director’s arrest happened in prison, the spokesman added: “The practitioner who was arrested was in prison for another issue related to the exercising of his profession.
“Officers had to ask for his release from prison so he could be informed of this new charge before he was returned to jail afterwards.
“He had been disqualified from practicing medicine and holding positions of responsibility in health centres and despite that ignored the ban to take part in the surgery the dead woman underwent.”
Sources close to the British woman confirmed that she had suffered complications after she travelled to Majorca for a boob job, adding that she had paid £6,000 for the botched op.
In December, local paper Ultima Hora reported that the Brit had a congenital heart defect which meant 25 per cent of her heart didn’t work properly.
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The young Brit was described as a PR specialist who had been planning to move to Australia for work for three months after the op,
The surgeon who died shortly after was described as a “foreign” man who flew to Majorca where he had “worked for decades” to perform the surgery.
Risks of plastic surgery overseas
Overseas surgeons are not subject to the same rules, regulations and training as doctors in the UK.
That means you can’t guarantee the safety of the equipment or material they are using.
Unsterile equipment dramatically increases your risk of infection, which could lead to necrotising fasciitis (flesh-eating bugs), sepsis or even death.
On top of that, if you are opting for fillers or injections anywhere on the body there is no way of knowing if doctors are using dangerous substances.
Cosmetic surgeons have warned against cut-price surgery as there is a real risk you will be injected with “unsafe substances”.
Prof Ash Mosahebi, honorary secretary of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons’ (BAAPS), said most patients either opt for cheap injections or implants to boost their bum and boobs.
“If they are having injections then god knows what they are being injected with, if it is safe, or if it is sterile,” he told The Sun Online.
“Oil, for example, does make it look bigger for a few days but then it deflates and it’s likely infection like sepsis can kick in.
“I know of silicone oil being used, which shouldn’t be used for medical purposes.
“I’ve heard of cement but I haven’t seen it myself, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s things like that.
“Most of the time the injections end up having a lot of bacteria in them as well because they aren’t sterile.”