COSMETIC
SURGERY TRAGEDY - Stunning model, 22, dies of a heart attack just hours
after having liposuction – as cops hunt missing surgeon
Investigating police say the surgeon has vanished following the sudden death
Melanie
Montenegro, 22, had traveled to the city of Guayaquil, in the south
western Ecuadorian province of Guayas, one of the biggest cities of
Ecuador, to undergo a liposuction in a clinic owned by doctor Felipe
Leyton.
The
next day according to police she suffered a massive heart attack while
undergoing surgery, and died, and the surgeon has now vanished.
According
to Edwin Montenegro, her father, they were informed that his daughter
was dead through a telephone call from the owner of the clinic.
He said that his medical team had not been informed that she was allergic to one of the medicines used during surgery.
The
dad, who said he had not realised his daughter was going to undergo the
surgery, claimed that she had been misled by TV adverts offering
low-cost surgery.
The
prosecutor investigating the case, Fredy Toala, has already ordered a
search of the surgery and home where the medic was supposedly living,
but said it was empty.
A
spokesman for the family, Hector Vanegas, said they also planned to
report this clinic to medical authorities as well as pursuing a criminal
complaint.
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| Melanie Montenegro was healthy and her heart attack is unexplained |
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| It is claimed Melanie was tempted to get lipo because of a TV ad |
