Court orders "butt lift" doctor to stop performing surgery after woman's death
DORAL, Fla. -- A court in Florida has ordered a doctor to stop performing plastic surgery after an Illinois woman's death.
The Miami Herald reports Florida's First District Court of Appeals ordered Monday that 44-year-old Osakatukei "Osak" Omulepu must also have a board-certified physician present for any other medical procedures until it rules on the state's effort to stop him from practicing.
Miami-Dade County authorities say his patient, 30-year-old Lattia Baumeister, who was visiting from Chicago, died June 1 of fat clots in her lung from liposuction and fat transfer surgery, CBS Miami reports.
Omulepu's attorney, Monica Rodriguez, says he offered to work under a board-certified plastic surgeon's supervision in response to the court restricting his license.
Florida officials have tried three times since February 2016 to stop Omulepu from performing a self-declared specialty liposuction and fat transfer procedure.
According to the Miami Herald, Baumeister was the third out-of-state woman in just over a year to die after traveling to the Miami area to undergo plastic surgery.
On March 25, 25-year-old Ranika Hall, of Kansas City, Missouri, died after she received a Brazilian butt lift procedure at Eres Plastic Surgery in Hialeah, Florida. In May 2016, 29-year-old Heather Meadows, of West Virginia, died after she received cosmetic surgery at the same Hialeah medical center operating under another name.
