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| Curvy Pamela Nascimento |
A Brazilian TV model died during a botched liposuction operation, it was reported today [Nov. 1]. Curvy Pamela Nascimento, 27, appeared as the glamorous assistant host on several prime-time game shows.
She is believed to have died on the operating table after suffering a perforated kidney during the cosmetic surgery at the private clinic in Sao Paulo, where she lived. The cause of her death was registered as hypovolemic shock, where severe blood loss makes the heart unable to pump enough blood to the body. It was reportedly the third time the model had undergone the stomach-flattening procedure.
Ms Nascimento's death on October 19 was only made public this week.
The body was taken to Sao Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, where she was buried. Only after the burial was police informed about the case by the victim's aunt, Enedida Nascimento, 61.
Police today said they will be exhuming her body and could charge the surgeon who performed the operation, Dr Julio Yoshimura, with manslaughter.
The doctor could also be charged with procedural fraud as the police were not notified about the death, and her death certificate written by the same doctor who had performed the operation, a spokesman added.
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| Curvy Pamela Nascimento |
Ms Nascimento's aunt, Enedida Nascimento, from Santa Cataerina, said her niece had undergone other plastic surgery, including breast enhancement and nose jobs
She told Brazil's Hoje em Dia programme: 'She was obsessed with her looks. She was always telling me how fat she thought she was'.
'But she didn't tell me about this latest liposuction. If she had told me I wouldn't have let her. 'It had only been a short time since she'd had treatment for varicose veins'.
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| Enedida Nascimento |
A doctor from the hospital called me telling me that there had been a complication with Pamela's liposuction and that she had passed away. I went to the hospital to recognise her body.
'The staff seemed very nervous, they were shaking. They wanted me to arrange for her to be taken back home and buried as soon as possible. 'I'm sure there's something the hospital hasn't told us, and someone was negligent and Pamela didn't have to die. That's why I decided to inform the police'.
