A celebrity Brazilian plastic surgeon known as Dr Bumbum has gone on the run after a woman died following injections he gave her to enlarge her bottom. BBC News quotes investigators as saying that Dr Denis Furtado carried out the procedure on Lilian Calixto at his home in Rio de Janeiro but she fell ill during the procedure. Furtado took her to a hospital where her condition worsened and she died some hours later, police said. He then disappeared and a judge has issued a warrant for his arrest.
The report says Furtado appears regularly on Brazilian TV and has nearly 650,000 followers on his Instagram account.
Calixto, a 46-year-old married mother-of-two who works in banking, had travelled from her home in Cuiaba, central Brazil, to undergo buttock enhancement by Furtado, reports said. The procedure, believed to involve the injection of acrylic glass filler, took place at his apartment in the upmarket district of Barra de Tijuca.
The Hospital Barra D'Or in Rio de Janeiro said that, despite efforts to save her, Calixto was "unresponsive to manoeuvres" and died. The exact reason for her death has not been confirmed. Police said Furtado's girlfriend was arrested on suspicion of taking part in the procedure.
The report says the Regional Medical Council of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Cremerj) said it had opened an investigation into Calixto's death.
Niveo Steffen, president of the Brazilian Plastic Surgery Society, said there was a "growing invasion of non-specialists" in the industry. "You cannot perform plastic surgery inside an apartment," he is quoted as saying. "Many people are selling a dream, a fantasy to patients in an unethical way and people, weakened, are often attracted to low prices, without considering whether or not the conditions are adequate," he said.
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