China woman dies after 6 cosmetic surgeries in a day, family gets half of US$168,000 sought
Nose job, double eyelid surgery, thigh liposuction then face and breast work leads to death followed by protracted legal battle
A woman in China died after undergoing six cosmetic surgeries within 24 hours, sparking a lawsuit by her family against the clinic involved seeking 1.2 million yuan (US$168,000).
On December 9, 2020, the woman, surnamed Liu, from a rural area in Guigang, Guangxi province, southern China, visited a clinic in Nanning, where she took out a loan of more than 40,000 yuan (US$5,600) to finance six cosmetic procedures.
In the afternoon of December 9, she first underwent double eyelid surgery and a nose job, which took five hours.
This was followed by a liposuction procedure on her thighs, with the fat then injected into her face and breasts the next morning which also lasted five hours.
However, on December 11, just as Liu was discharged and on reaching the lift, she suddenly collapsed in the clinic.
Despite emergency efforts by the clinic staff, she was transferred to The Second Nanning People’s Hospital, where she was declared dead later in the afternoon.
