Liposuction 360

Liposuction is one of the most popular cosmetic procedures done today. Serious complications, altough rare, do occur such as stroke, blood clots, allergic reactions and even death.

Mayalsian newspapers carried the story of a company managing director who died following liposuction, with Kosmo! front-paging the story and including a picture of her in a yellow baju kurung.

Noraini Mohd Ghazali, 30, managing director of a laboratory supplies company, died at a clinic in Ampang during a follow-up procedure.

Apparently, Noraini. who weighed between 50kg and 53kg before she started the treatment, had gone for treatment 14 times since December 2007.

According to the doctor who treated her, she vomited three times after he gave her an anaesthetic injection before starting the procedure, and efforts to resuscitate her failed.

Noraini’s adoptive sister Misha Abu Bakar, 46, said she was baffled when she had to wait about four hours for her instead of the usual less than an hour’s treatment.

“At 5pm, I saw several nurses going up and down the stairs in a panicky state and demanded that they tell me what happened,” she said.

Misha said Noraini had complained that her hip hurt for the past month and she could not sit or sleep comfortably.

Ampang Jaya Municipal Council president Mohammad Yacob said the clinic had a proper licence and that police had classified the case as sudden death.