Inspectors of the Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City have requested Saigon Kangnam Aesthetic Hospital in Tan Binh District to suspend plastic surgery services pending the investigation from the authorities after a senior woman was declared dead following a breast fat implantation there.

The inspectors are coordinating with competent agencies to clarify the cause of the death of L.L.P., a 61-year-old resident of District 11, Le Thi Huynh Nhu, deputy chief of the office of the municipal health department, said on Friday night.

P. went to Saigon Kangnam Aesthetic Hospital for a pre-surgery examination on April 19 and then was scheduled to be admitted to the hospital at 6:00 am on April 20 for a breast fat transplant surgery.

As P. felt short of breath, doctors at the Saigon Kangnam Hospital asked for emergency assistance from Cho Ray Hospital in District 5.

The woman was put on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), or outside-the-body life support, before being transferred to Cho Ray Hospital to continue treatment and died there at 4:20 pm on the same day.

The municipal health department’s inspectors have asked Saigon Kangnam Aesthetic Hospital and Cho Ray Hospital to hand over P.’s medical records to facilitate the investigation.

They have also suspended Saigon Kangnam Aesthetic Hospital’s plastic surgery services in the meantime.

An experienced plastic surgery expert in Ho Chi Minh City told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper that breast fat transplantation is not recommended by domestic and international experts because of a high risk of pulmonary embolism.

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