Prosecutors Indict Plastic Surgeon After Death of Chinese Patient in Her 20s; "Previous Patient Also Died"

The prosecution has indicted a plastic surgeon in his 50s without detention on charges of professional negligence resulting in death, following the death of a Chinese medical tourist who underwent surgery at his clinic.

The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office (Criminal Division 2, Chief Prosecutor Lee Joo-hee) announced that it referred the director of a plastic surgery clinic in Gangnam, Seoul, identified as A, to trial on June 11.

A is accused of violating his duty of care by failing to properly address various complications, including signs of infection, that developed in a Chinese woman in her 20s, identified as B, after performing full-body liposuction on her three times over a period of about two weeks in November 2023.

B eventually passed away in January of the following year. The prosecution explained that it assigned a prosecutor specializing in medical cases to the investigation, directly questioned A, and conducted a thorough analysis of approximately 2,500 pages of medical records to establish a causal link between A's breach of duty and B's death.

It was also reported that A is currently standing trial in a separate case, having been indicted without detention in May 2023 for a similar incident in 2018, where another Chinese patient died after A allegedly failed to properly monitor the patient under anesthesia following liposuction surgery.
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