Ana Bárbara Buhr Buldrini, a 31-year-old singer from Mozambique, died at a hospital in Turkey just hours after receiving a breast augmentation, liposuction and a nose job
A heartbroken husband has paid tribute to his “beautiful” wife who died just hours after undergoing plastic surgery.
Ana Bárbara Buhr Buldrini travelled to Turkey last Friday, alongside Elgar Miles from their home in Mozambique, to undergo a breast augmentation, liposuction and a nose job. The 31-year-old singer went into cardiac arrest shortly after the procedures at Tusa Hospital in Istanbul and tragically died.
Mr Miles, who only married Mrs Buldrini a month ago, said it was his wife’s dream to “improve her aesthetic standards”. Allegedly receiving the procedures in return for promoting Tusa Hospital, the couple are said to have partied with the physician doing the surgeries in Istanbul on Saturday night, G1 reports, via Mail online.
According to Mr Miles, who is an artist himself, his wife was taken into surgery earlier than scheduled, just two days after an initial consultation. “‘Due to scheduling issues, the surgeon decided to bring it forward to Sunday,” he said. “We went to the clinic on Sunday just to see the place, but the doctor wanted to perform the procedure without Ana being prepared.”
Despite allegedly being out the night before, Mr Miles claims his wife was persuaded to go ahead. “The doctor assured me that there were no problems and that everything would be fine,” he told G1 news outlet.
Mrs Buldrini underwent the procedures and was out of the operating room by 11pm Sunday. Her heart allegedly began to slow down, however, and Mr Miles noticed a change in the staff’s mood.
“They told me to go to the room, the assistants were acting strangely. I waited for 1 hour and 15 minutes to receive her,” he said. “I went down to the ground floor and a doctor said that her heart was beating slowly, another said that she was already dead.”
In a statement obtained by Turkish outlet Turkiye Today, Tusa Hospital stated that the singer had been given full legal and medical information and had signed all necessary consent forms before the procedures. There was “an unexpected complication” during the recovery phase, the hospital said, and Mrs Buldrini experienced ventricular fibrillation, a serious heart rhythm disturbance, and suffered cardiac arrest.
Medical staff attempted to revive her for but were unsuccessful. “Despite all efforts by our expert anesthesiology team, the patient could not be resuscitated,” the statement read.
Mr Miles, who married his wife in May in Maputo, Mozambique, six years after meeting in Rome, has been left devastated. “She was the person who cared for me the most, who loved me the most, who believed in me the most,” he said. “I just want justice to be done and for this case to serve as an example for all people who want to undergo a type of medical intervention like the one Ana underwent.”
In a tribute posted on his Instagram page, Mr Miles said: “Our last few days were too beautiful to end this tragically. I will love you forever because I chose you for that. Years and years of building our empire for today I’m here in this room alone with no floor.
“I promised to protect and love you like the queen and beautiful person you are inside and out. It doesn’t seem fair living this life without you, not really. I want to be wherever you are because none of this makes sense without you.”
According to the hospital’s statement, legal procedures have been initiated to determine cause of death. The hospital say they are fully cooperating with authorities.
