“In 2017, thirty-two-year-old Marian Al-Sahouri died during plastic surgery. Her story shows that the surgeon had put more effort convincing her to undergo the procedure instead of making efforts to adhere to the medical protocols to ensure that she would be safe under anesthesia.

Marian “hated” her body due to the scars resulting from poor sutures, and she has been convinced to go through plastic surgery when she met a doctor on social media who lured her in, telling her that “the process was easy and after she would have a beautiful body.” Marian’s brother Tariq Al-Sahouri, said that the doctor had told his sister that several operations including liposuction, scar revisions, buttocks lift, and a tummy tuck could be performed all in one operation for 10000 Jordanian Dinars, that is $14000 US Dollars.

The operation that had taken her life was carried out at a maternity hospital without a fully equipped operating room for liposuctions. Basic pre-operation medical tests such as examining tissues and blood cells were not done. Her brother stresses that the doctor did not calculate the amount of fat to be taken out, nor did he study her medical history failing to see that she had screws in one leg as a result of an old fracture injury.