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Twitter User Cries Out As Friend Dies In Lagos Clinic After Bum Surgery
Half of all young women in Nigeria desire to improve their appearances by having cosmetic surgery especially to increase their backside or their frontside, some even desire to have both surgeries done.
A young lady has reportedly lost her life after a surgery gone wrong.
According to a Twitter user; Miss Posha, who raised the alarm about the death of her friend, said her friend; Crystabel died at a clinic in Lagos, where she had gone to do plastic surgery.
Lamenting the death of her friend, Miss Posha tweeted via #poshcupcake_1, ”I want to bring this to the public, A friend just died at this hospital in Lagos Nigeria, a few days ago where she underwent surgery.
“Now I’m not against anybody that wants to enhance their body or anything as such, it’s your body, life, and choice, so do what you love but I’m against doctors that claim they have experience abroad, come down to Nigeria to kill young people.
“After the surgery, she complained of bleeding and the doctors claimed it is normal, it will stop. Now, this is the problem. How are you a highly skilled and professional plastic surgeon with experience abroad and someone you finish operating on, complained about bleeding and you said it is normal it will stop?”
Miss Posha added that after her friend died, the clinic didn’t contact her family until friends traced her to the clinic and were told to pick her body from the mortuary.
She said, “Hospital did not find it needful to contact any of her relatives. Until the few friends who knew she was going for surgery said she was supposed to have been back, they decided to go to the hospital to check on her; on arrival, they were offered a letter that her body has been deposited at the mortuary. This is sickening.”
Miss Posha called on the government to do more to curb the quack practices in the healthcare sector.
The Twitter user refused to name the hospital but she later posted a short video of the doctor.
Society’s focus on appearance is increasing and this has made plastic surgery much more widely accepted as a way for body enhancement.
But Is life better after surgery?
In 2020, a wealthy businessman and a former People Democratic Party governorship aspirant in Bayelsa State, Keneibi Okoko died due to a power outage during a tummy tuck surgery in a Lagos hospital.
In the same 2020 a controversial cosmetics surgeon, Dr. Anu Adepoju was suspended from the medical profession in Nigeria following multiple claims of malpractice and botched surgeries at her clinic, Med Contour.
Several women who went to Med Contour for cosmetic surgery complained about having complications that they still suffer from.
One particular patient was rushed to LUTH and eventually died after being operated on by Anu. Her suspension was facilitated by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, FCCPC.
