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Deadly cosmetic surgeries in Latin America: A problem of self-esteem? Via El Pais

While people discuss self-love or vanity, in the clandestine operating rooms of Latin America hundreds of people are at risk, writes a journalist who was the victim of one of these phony surgeons

It’s not the lack of self-love that kills them. Women who die during cosmetic surgeries are killed by medical negligence and a lack of regulation in the face of an issue that seems to be becoming a public health problem in Latin America.

Only in Colombia, one of the main destinations in the world for this type of procedures, mortality associated with cosmetic surgeries increased by 130% between 2015 and 2016, according to the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences.

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