Lucky Obukohwo Reporting
A young lady, 23, Destiny Benjamin, has been reported to have dead four days after an alleged failed hip surgery also known as Brazilian Butt Lift, BBL, at Cynosure Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Lagos.
Various social media platforms have been awash with the viral video of the unsuccessful surgery procedure since her death.
Confirming the incident, the owner of the Cynosure Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Dr Ogbe Omoruyi, where the surgery took place, denied the allegation that the lady died in the hospital during the surgery.
Omoruyi, who spoke to Vanguard, explained that the deceased underwent the surgery on 8th, March 2023, and had complained of difficulty in breathing before she was referred to the Genesis Specialists hospital, Ikeja GRA, Lagos State, where she gave up the ghost.
Omoruyi who is also a Plastic surgeon and owner of the facility further told said that the deceased was 23 years old and not 20 years.
He said: “She is a 23-years old girl according to what she wrote on the document. She had a surgery and after that, she was fine, her surgery went well. I can show you in our case note to show that everything was fine, however, after days, she was having difficulty breathing. We placed her on oxygen and she was stabilized before we referred her to an Intensive Care Unit, which is 10 minutes away from our facility.
“Unfortunately as we all know, surgery has its own risk, and if you ask any professional doctor or surgeon who knows about life consumptions and tractions, it is very easy to think that she could have fat embolism or clot embolism, but she has difficulty in breathing.
“A very important investigation was done, and that was how the investigation was called CT pulmonary angiogram this can detect any clot that is present within the pulmonary system unfortunately, she suffered this condition but she was not pulmonary assort and that makes us begin to wonder what it could have been, because from the findings of the investigation, a different diagnosis was raised after the embolism, and the results came out based after she did the test.
“The test was done in the facility where she was referred to, when she got there and went for the test, the investigation was done and the report, I didn’t even get to know about the report.
“It was done at a different facility, however, we maintained a relationship with the facility and when I was informed and showed the results, it was said that she didn’t have an embolism.
“Her cousin, Sunset, was with her after her surgery. They went around because they were together. She came here to see her and they took pictures together, moving around the clinic compound two days later. This is to let you know that she was fine after the surgery.
“However or unfortunately, an autopsy hasn’t been done; I don’t know if the family is going to consent to that, I mean the autopsy to see the exact cause of her death.”
When the Lagos State Police Public Relations, SP Benjamin Hundeyin was contacted, he said: “To the best of my knowledge, I am not aware of the incident, the families of the bereaved have neither reported to the police authority.”