“It’s essential for the entire industry that patients feel safe and are well cared for and get the results they are looking for.” Pandemic downtime
“We’re working very hard to make sure that doctors who are practicing without the proper credentials are immediately shut down and are investigated by the Attorney General,” said Atzimba Villegas, the state director of medical tourism. She said no one from Baja California has contacted her to collect any information about her daughter’s death.Īsked to comment on Weaver’s death, Baja California authorities said they would look into it. Renee Weaver, Keuana’s mother, said she was considering getting in touch with an attorney but wasn’t sure how the process would work in Tijuana. They don’t really do their jobs,” said Montfort. “There are organizations that are supposed to (provide oversight) but they do not really do it. He added medical malpractice lawsuits are rare - as are investigations into doctors who practice without the proper credentials. “If a relative wants to know more about what went wrong, then they have to file a criminal complaint against the doctor,” said Montfort.
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Gilberto Montfort, a longtime plastic surgeon in Baja California and member of the Asociación Mexicana de Cirugía Plástica, Estética y Reconstructiva, A.C., the professional surgeon’s association. Injured patients or their family members don’t have much recourse in Mexico, according to Dr. Weaver’s death and the injuries described by the other two patients raise questions, though, about what oversight exists when things go wrong. Juan Antonio López Corbalá, a specialist in that field. That’s possibly because of its geographical location and because of the quality of care and services on specialties such as bariatric surgery, according to Dr.
In Tijuana, the most visited location in Baja California for medical tourism, business has not been as heavily impacted by the pandemic as other locations across the globe. That includes the spill-over effect of spending on luxury hotels and restaurants, where patients stay and eat before and after their procedures. patients of registered Mexican doctors were allowed to pass through the San Ysidro border in a special lane, avoiding the notoriously long waits.īaja California’s Secretary of Sustainable Economy and Tourism (SEST) estimates the industry has tripled in recent years, from 800,000 medical tourists documented in 2014 to 2.4 million in 2018, generating annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion. cost that the state initiated a special medical “Fast Lane” program at the border in 2011. Before the pandemic, so many Americans regularly crossed into Baja California to undergo weight-loss surgery, visit the dentist or have blood work done at a fraction of the U.S. Tijuana has shared in that boom, part of a larger effort by state officials to build up its “medical tourism” industry. Plastic surgeons worldwide report an unprecedented number of requests for procedures they believe were brought on by workers spending more time staring at their faces on Zoom.
The Medical Board of Baja California referred questions to the Asociación Mexicana de Cirugía Plástica, Estética y Reconstructiva, A.C., a professional organization of plastic surgeons, which said Báez was not a member.Īccording to a 2015 news report, inspectors with Mexico’s Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) in April 2015 shut down a different cosmetic surgery clinic run by Báez López for “failing to meet the minimum requirements to operate legally.” The ‘Zoom boom’ĭemand for cosmetic treatment has shot up since last March. Receptionists at his clinic told a reporter on April 13 that Báez López was unavailable to answer any questions because he was in the middle of another surgery.Ī letter provided by Renee Weaver shows the clinic offered to refund the $6,700 cost of Keuana Weaver’s surgery.īaja California’s Secretary of Health did not respond to requests for comment. She was the mother of a 13-year-old and a 1-year-old.īáez López, the doctor, did not respond to multiple requests from the Union-Tribune for comment, made in person and by email and phone. 29 during a procedure at a plastic surgery clinic located in Tijuana’s Las Torres towers in the Colonia Aviación - a commercial district along a major corridor in the border city. Keuana Weaver’s family said she died Jan.
I want to know what happened,” said Renee Weaver, 58.
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