I'm getting COVID-19 treatmentIt's... 14-year-old girl dies after breast enlargement surgery
Sep 25, 2025
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The hospital insisted that there was no connection between breast enlargement surgery and death, but the family is appealing to the authorities, saying a fact-finding investigation is needed.
Paloma Nicole Arejano Escobedo (14), who lived in Durango, Mexico, died in a hospital a week after breast enlargement surgery, according to foreign media such as the Daily Mail.
In the death certificate, complications from respiratory diseases were listed as the cause of death.
However, the girl's father, Carlos Arellano, is demanding a fact-finding investigation, saying that breast surgery is the direct cause. He argued that "The fact that the death certificate says disease is an attempt to hide the truth" was issued in a hurry, and that the operation was not known until he saw his daughter's body at the funeral."
Carlos said his daughter went into cardiac arrest due to complications after surgery, and recalled that he had been told by his wife at the time that Paloma had contracted COVID-19 and had gone on a quarantine trip to a mountainous area. Later, when he arrived at the hospital after receiving a call that his daughter was in critical condition, he was already in a coma, relying on a ventilator.
According to local media Antenna 3, Paloma's mother reportedly agreed to the operation, and the father officially filed a complaint after the funeral, raising suspicions about his daughter's death. Mexican authorities are currently investigating the incident.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
