A young Kannada actor who went to a private hospital in Bengaluru for a fat removal surgery died yesterday in a tragic case of body shaming and the obsessive pursuit of near-impossible standards of beauty. Chethana Raj, a 21-year-old TV star, died because of the hospital’s negligence, her family alleges.
Chethana Raj reportedly went with her friends to Dr. Shetty’s Cosmetic Clinic in Rajajinagar for cosmetic surgery, without telling her parents. Her friend reportedly signed the consent form before she was taken into surgery. Soon after the procedure, her lungs reportedly filled up with fluid. She died of a cardiac arrest within hours.
A case has been filed against doctors on a police complaint by her parents. The hospital has been shut down.
Narayanamma, Chethana’s grandmother, is devastated. “She had borrowed money, pawned our jewelry for the surgery, in the hope of becoming a star. We even tried to reason with her and told her we would talk to the doctors. But she insisted she and her friends would get it done. Now look what happened,” she wept.
source: https://www.ndtv.com/